Bordalo Pinheiro Museum
In Campo Grande since 1916, the house museum of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro's caricatures, ceramics and Zé Povinho.
Bordalo Pinheiro Museum
The Bordalo Pinheiro Museum grew out of the collection assembled by Artur Ernesto de Santa Cruz Magalhães (1864–1928), a poet, critic, humorist and unconditional admirer of Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, who founded the museum in the artist's honour and ran it until his death. In 1913 he commissioned the architect Álvaro Machado to design the house in Campo Grande, which received an honourable mention of the Valmor Prize in 1914, and the museum opened to the public on 6 August 1916. In 1924 the collector donated it to Lisbon City Council and, after building works, it reopened in 1926 under the direction of his niece, Julieta Ferrão, the first woman to run a museum in Portugal. In 1992 a new building was added at the rear, with a temporary exhibition gallery; structural damage caused by construction next door forced it to close in 1999, and it reopened in 2005 after a thorough refurbishment. Since 2016, its centenary year, it has been managed by EGEAC. The collection, with more than 13,000 objects and a specialist library that has existed since the foundation, brings together drawings, prints, paintings, ceramics, tiles, photographs and documents by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and his son, Manuel Gustavo, ranging from humorous drawing and caricature, with the famous Zé Povinho, to ceramics, and is shown on a rotating basis. Visitors enter along a walkway covered by a wisteria that is decades old.
Located at: Museu Bordalo Pinheiro
Address: Campo Grande, 382, 1700-097 Lisboa
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00 (closed on Mondays and on 1 Jan, 1 May, 24, 25 and 31 Dec)
Phone: +351 215 818 540
Coordinates: 38.75889, -9.15417
Buses: 701, 717, 736, 750, 767, 798, 45B, 778, 747, 46B
Metro: Campo Grande (Yellow, Green), Cidade Universitária (Yellow)
Opened: 1916 (110 years)
