Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Opened in 1969 in the midst of Lisbon's tranquil Edward VII Park, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses the astonishing personal collection of the Armenian-born oil magnate Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1869–1955), whose bequest to Portugal transformed the country's cultural landscape. Its Founder's Collection of roughly 6,000 objects spans five millennia — Egyptian bronzes, Mesopotamian reliefs, Greco-Roman coins, Islamic ceramics and textiles, Chinese porcelain, Japanese lacquer, European illuminated manuscripts, paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Turner, Manet, and Degas, and an unparalleled ensemble of René Lalique jewelry. A separate Modern Collection across the garden displays 20th-century Portuguese art. The Foundation's modernist 1969 complex by Ruy Athouguia, Pedro Cid, and Alberto Pessoa is itself a landmark of Portuguese architecture.

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