Places
Nuno Pinto
Open Visits
Regular Visits
Building with partial access to people with reduced mobility
Tours
Visit accompanied by Architect Cristina Chicau
Maximum 15 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
This museum dialogues in a very literal way with the city, namely with Reboleira Street (downtown Ribeira) that draws the space “between” the two buildings of the group. In the pre-existing main building the intervention is chirurgical, leaving the space to communicate its history and taking advantage of the pictorial ornament in the mediation between exhibition displays and the manifestation of the architecture itself (old and new). The reception of the museum plays a pivotal role whether for the program, or for the two buildings. From the other side of the street, the Espaço Dois of the museum is a scenographic place in the several meanings the term evokes. On the ground floor of the centenary house a multiuse space develops, designed with a concrete structure, a kind of petrified scenario that uses as a mold walls and arches built in granite, in other words, its very own pre-existence. It is a stage, an ephemeral structure with the weight of architecture (and the heritage of the Douro river).
Location
Rua da Reboleira, 37
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Bus: STCP - 900, 901, 906, ZR, Tram 1