It is located in the former Casino da Vila, Av. Heliodoro Salgado, in the area of Estefânia, City and municipality of Sintra, District of Lisbon, Central Portugal
The MU.SA - Museu das Artes de Sintra is a museum space located in the old Casino as a project by Manuel Norte Júnior and opened on August 1, 1924 next to the Olga Cadaval Cultural Center, in Estefânia, in Sintra.
MU.SA has a multipurpose and plural program that includes temporary exhibitions, educational programs, public sessions, animations, support for activities of municipal interest, various initiatives of an artistic and cultural nature: Visual Arts Awards.
The museum promotes knowledge of contemporary art: works that appear in the Municipal Art Collection, thematic exhibitions of established and emerging artists, specific exhibitions, or exhibitions organized in collaboration with Portuguese cultural institutions are presented in the Museum's various spaces aimed at diverse audiences.
The Sintra Arts Museum comprises, in addition to the Collection and the Municipal Art Gallery, several initiatives of an artistic and cultural nature by renowned artists emerging on the national and international scene, spanning several generations, techniques and themes.
The museum is part of the Municipal Bookstore, an educational area aimed at children and a restaurant area.
The space had been occupied by part of the Berardo Collection collection since 1997 and until 2007, during a period when it was known as the Museum of Modern Art.
The building was left vacant after the transfer of this collection to the Museu Coleção Berardo, located in the Centro Cultural de Belém.
The exhibition dedicated to the main artistic movements in European and American art from the 1920s to the present is interspersed with several temporary exhibitions, various movements in modern and contemporary art such as Surrealism, American Abstract Expressionism, Minimal Art or Pop Art.
Júlio Pomar's autobiography was the largest exhibition with a representative anthology of the painter's entire work since the beginning of his career.
The Museum dedicates a space called Nova Galeria to support young artists such as Adriana Molder, Catarina Leitão, Joana Vasconcelos, Sara Maia, João Pedro Vale, Miguel Navas and other talents unknown to the public.
The Collection Emílio de Paula Campos (1884-1943), teacher by profession, sculptor, watercolorist and art collector by vocation, obtained his artistic training at the António Arroio School, in Lisbon.
In 1973, the artistic estate that belonged to him was collected by his nephew, the architect Francisco Castro Rodrigues (1920), and offered to the Sintra City Council, which first exhibited it in the former Regional Museum of Sintra, and from now on it occupies a prominent place in the MU.SA.
The Dorita Castel-Branco Room (1936-1996) the sculptor Dorita Castel-Branco graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon and is represented in national and international collections, dividing herself between the figurative and the abstract covering materials as diverse as polyminium, marble, polyester or bronze.
The sculptor stood out in sculpture, tapestry, drawing and medals, an area that earned her several awards in Portugal and abroad.
The Sintra City Council awarded the Contemporary Medal Award to Dorita Castel-Branco.
The landscape-image of Sintra has been the target of attention from travelers and residents since ancient times, from the second half of the 18th century and in the 19th century, the small town and the mountain that hosts it assert themselves as a paradigm of the European romantic movement and a cultural landscape of great aesthetic value, articulating centuries-old buildings and nature, classified by UNESCO in the Cultural Landscape category and which MU.SA invites its visitors to contemplate.
MU.SA proposes a journey through the figurative art existing in the Municipal Collection of Contemporary Art through the art of painting and sculpture produced, particularly from the mid-20th century onwards, by Portuguese and foreign artists residing in Portugal.
Abstract Art is a reality composed of patches of color, shapes, lines or surfaces that seem to evade the expression of the known and achieved particular prominence in the visual arts of the 20th century.
The Sintra Municipal Council's Municipal Collection of Contemporary Art presents at MU.SA some of its most emblematic works that aim to provoke and unsettle the observer, inviting them on an exclusive journey challenging their meanings.
Photography appears as a liberating technique that promoted new aesthetic paradigms, and the City of Sintra, due to its scenic settings, became an inspiration, becoming one of the most photographed places in Portugal.
At MU.SA, photography is represented in the Sintra landscape to the forefront of new ideas defending the new on the frontiers of experimentalism.
MU.SA has a multipurpose and plural program that includes temporary exhibitions, educational programs, public sessions, animations, support for activities of municipal interest, various initiatives of an artistic and cultural nature: Visual Arts Awards.
The museum promotes knowledge of contemporary art: works that appear in the Municipal Art Collection, thematic exhibitions of established and emerging artists, specific exhibitions, or exhibitions organized in collaboration with Portuguese cultural institutions are presented in the Museum's various spaces aimed at diverse audiences.
The Sintra Arts Museum comprises, in addition to the Collection and the Municipal Art Gallery, several initiatives of an artistic and cultural nature by renowned artists emerging on the national and international scene, spanning several generations, techniques and themes.
The museum is part of the Municipal Bookstore, an educational area aimed at children and a restaurant area.
The space had been occupied by part of the Berardo Collection collection since 1997 and until 2007, during a period when it was known as the Museum of Modern Art.
The building was left vacant after the transfer of this collection to the Museu Coleção Berardo, located in the Centro Cultural de Belém.
The exhibition dedicated to the main artistic movements in European and American art from the 1920s to the present is interspersed with several temporary exhibitions, various movements in modern and contemporary art such as Surrealism, American Abstract Expressionism, Minimal Art or Pop Art.
Júlio Pomar's autobiography was the largest exhibition with a representative anthology of the painter's entire work since the beginning of his career.
The Museum dedicates a space called Nova Galeria to support young artists such as Adriana Molder, Catarina Leitão, Joana Vasconcelos, Sara Maia, João Pedro Vale, Miguel Navas and other talents unknown to the public.
The Collection Emílio de Paula Campos (1884-1943), teacher by profession, sculptor, watercolorist and art collector by vocation, obtained his artistic training at the António Arroio School, in Lisbon.
In 1973, the artistic estate that belonged to him was collected by his nephew, the architect Francisco Castro Rodrigues (1920), and offered to the Sintra City Council, which first exhibited it in the former Regional Museum of Sintra, and from now on it occupies a prominent place in the MU.SA.
The Dorita Castel-Branco Room (1936-1996) the sculptor Dorita Castel-Branco graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon and is represented in national and international collections, dividing herself between the figurative and the abstract covering materials as diverse as polyminium, marble, polyester or bronze.
The sculptor stood out in sculpture, tapestry, drawing and medals, an area that earned her several awards in Portugal and abroad.
The Sintra City Council awarded the Contemporary Medal Award to Dorita Castel-Branco.
The landscape-image of Sintra has been the target of attention from travelers and residents since ancient times, from the second half of the 18th century and in the 19th century, the small town and the mountain that hosts it assert themselves as a paradigm of the European romantic movement and a cultural landscape of great aesthetic value, articulating centuries-old buildings and nature, classified by UNESCO in the Cultural Landscape category and which MU.SA invites its visitors to contemplate.
MU.SA proposes a journey through the figurative art existing in the Municipal Collection of Contemporary Art through the art of painting and sculpture produced, particularly from the mid-20th century onwards, by Portuguese and foreign artists residing in Portugal.
Abstract Art is a reality composed of patches of color, shapes, lines or surfaces that seem to evade the expression of the known and achieved particular prominence in the visual arts of the 20th century.
The Sintra Municipal Council's Municipal Collection of Contemporary Art presents at MU.SA some of its most emblematic works that aim to provoke and unsettle the observer, inviting them on an exclusive journey challenging their meanings.
Photography appears as a liberating technique that promoted new aesthetic paradigms, and the City of Sintra, due to its scenic settings, became an inspiration, becoming one of the most photographed places in Portugal.
At MU.SA, photography is represented in the Sintra landscape to the forefront of new ideas defending the new on the frontiers of experimentalism.
