Edifício Chiado

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Front of the Edifício Chiado

The Edifício Chiado building is a municipal museum in Coimbra and is located in the inner-city municipality ( Freguesia ) São Bartolomeu .

history

In 1909, the owner of the Lisbon acquired Chiadoviertel nearby department store Armazéns do Chiado the building in Coimbra. Occasionally the building with the characteristic steel structure was ascribed to Eiffel , but probably only one of his students was the author. The house opened in 1910 as the largest department store in the city. The iron structure remained the most important in the city and is still an attraction today.

In 1980 the city administration acquired the building and extensively restored it in 1995. She later used the building in the center of the shopping area for art exhibitions and exhibitions of regional handicrafts. In 1998 the couple Maria Emília and José Carlos Telo de Morais donated their extensive art collection to the city of Coimbra, which is now on display in the Edifício Chiado. It is shown under the name Colecção Telo de Morais .

Today it is one of the three municipal museums that are run together as the Museu Municipal by the Department of Culture of the City of Coimbra.

Exhibits

The permanent exhibition consists of a collection of paintings by the most important Portuguese painters of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as Chinese ceramics, sculptures, silverware and Indo-Portuguese and Portuguese furniture.

The first, second and third floors house the permanent exhibition of the Colecção Telo de Morais art collection , and the ground floor is used as a venue for temporary exhibitions.

Illustrations

  • The Colecção Telo de Morais

  • The Colecção Telo de Morais

  • The Colecção Telo de Morais

  • Detailed view of the iron structure

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ monumentos.pt , (under Cronologia ), accessed on July 14, 2013.
  2. ^ Portugaltraveltips.co.uk , accessed July 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ lonelyplanet.com , accessed on July 14, 2013.
  4. ^ Lydia Hohenberger, Jürgen Strohmaier: Portugal . 2nd edition, DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, p. 200.
  5. ↑ lifecooler.com , accessed on July 14, 2013.
  6. ^ The Edifício Chiado on the city's website , accessed July 14, 2013.

Coordinates: 40 ° 12 ′ 31.2 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 44"  W.