Visit Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon Holidays

The Grafton on Sunset

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum features exceptional assortment from the East and the West. This museum is located in the Northeast of Eduardo VII Park and considered as one of Europe's overlooked treasures and one of the world’s great museums. As a part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, it addresses a glorious anthology of Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Islamic, European art and Asian. It was significantly renovated and reorganized in 2001. Many of its masterworks were on showcase in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art during reconstruction. Travelers can see these extraordinary collections in Lisbon holidays and it can’t be missed during a visit to this city. This is one of the world's premium concealed art collections, collective over a time of 40 years by oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian. He was one of the wealthiest men in 20th century. In his afterward years he accepted Portugal as his home, and donated all of his breathtaking art possessions to the country when he died at the age of 86 in 1955.

Of the most stupendous highlights is an unforgettable gold Egyptian mummy mask, a sequence of bronze cats, a superb 2700-year old alabaster bowl and other precious treasures in the Egyptian segment. While planning holidays to Lisbon book a journey to this museum and see wonderful collection here. Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, a 2400-year-old Attic vase in the Greek and Roman section, an astonishing collection of Hellenic coins and unusual part of Chinese porcelain are some of the unique collections in this museum. Rich 16th and 17th century Persian tapestries and Japanese prints are few more things to see in Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.

In the enormous European art division many of the anthropology were procured from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg are parts by Rembrandt (Alexander the Great and Potrait of an Old Man), Peter Paul Rubens (Portrayal of Helene Fourment), Van Dyck, Claude Monet, Ghirlandaio (15th century sketch of a girl), Pierre-Ausguste Renoir (Potrait of Madame Claude Monet) and Rogier Van der Weyden (St. Catherine) all along with French textiles and furniture. History lovers must plan their holidays in Lisbon once in lifetime to see these ultimate pieces placed in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Travelers can also see a white marble statue of Diana created by Jean-Antoine Houdon a famous French sculptor. Silver once used by Catherine the Great and made by François-Thomas Germain and unique jewelry designs René Lalique which are considered exceptional in the world are also displayed in this well-organized museum.