Museu de Arte e do Colecionismo de Cantanhede
Museum in the Casa do Capitão-Mor, in Cantanhede, with the donation of Cândido Ferreira: archaeology, decorative arts, painting, coins and postcards. Free admission.
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About the museum
The Museu de Arte e do Colecionismo de Cantanhede (MACC; Museum of Art and Collecting of Cantanhede) grew out of the donation to the municipality of a collection assembled over decades by the physician, writer and collector Cândido Ferreira, a native of Febres: about 800,000 pieces in around 100 collections. Housed in the historic building of the Casa do Capitão-Mor, in the centre of Cantanhede, it opened on 29 September 2024 in the presence of the President of the Republic.
The museum arranges the collections in large areas, including archaeology and world cultures, the history of money, painting, sculpture and decorative arts, sacred art, postal history, radio and sound-reproduction equipment and other forms of collecting, in the logic of an archive and a showcase. The route evokes the atmosphere of a collector's house, with painting from Romanticism to Modernism, furniture from the 16th to the 20th century, numismatics from ancient Greece to Portugal and its former colonies, and postcards and stamps.
The MACC has education services, with free guided visits by prior booking, and a room for temporary exhibitions.
Highlights
- Donation of Cândido Ferreira, with about 800,000 pieces in around 100 collections
- Numismatics from ancient Greece to Portugal and its former colonies
- Portuguese painting from Romanticism to Modernism and decorative arts
- Archaeology and artefacts from world cultures
- Postcards, stamps and radio and sound-reproduction equipment
Permanent exhibitions
- Arqueologia e culturas do mundo – Archaeological and craft artefacts from all continents, in a central showcase shaped like an archive, with a chronological route.
- Pintura, escultura e artes decorativas – Three rooms with Portuguese painting and sculpture from the 19th and 20th centuries, and furniture from the 16th to 20th centuries, in the manner of a collector's house.
- História do dinheiro – Coins and banknotes from ancient Greece and Rome to the issues of Portugal and its former colonies.
- Founded
- 2024
- Operated by
- Município de Cantanhede
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Guided visits are free and by prior booking; they can be adapted to the profile of the group and, in the case of schools, to the age and content of the pupils. |
