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“O Casulo” House of painter José Malhoa, in Figueiró dos Vinhos

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Located at Avenida José Malhoa, with the Figueiroense Club – House of Culture, the “Cocoon” was the residence that the Grand Master had built after fixation in Figueiró Wine. This residence has a plant consists of two rectangular bodies, tees, and the North-oriented body primitive atelier of the painter, built in 1895. The other body corresponds to the expansion designed by LE Reynaud in 1898, whose function was residential. A turret provides the junction of the two arms of the house, which has the walls plastered and painted the color of brick. The corners and the window frames are cut in rustic stone and lintels and cornices feature tiled friezes of mine Rafael Bordallo Pinheiro. In this typical romantic challet stands out inside the small open room to the porch, lined with carved leather, together with the ceiling covered wood. In the garden there is an arbor and a lake, the taste of the time. In 1982 the building was considered property of Cultural Value and municipal Interest mercy of its memorial value, which is associated to stay at the José Malhoa county that there produced much of his work, and died there on 23 October 1933.

Since July 26, 2013, it is installed on the ground floor of the building of the Chess Museum.

The Figueiró dos Vinhos Tourist Office of Wines started to work on “Cocoon of Malhoa” following the works of Recovery and Rehabilitation of that property classified as municipal interest.

Thus, Figueiró Wine now has a place with undeniable able to receive visitors and tourists in the area adjacent to the new Museum and Arts Center, allowing a clear strengthening of Cultural Tourism.

The Museu of José Malhoa, in Caldas da Rainha

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The Museu de José Malhoa (José Malhoa Museum), in Caldas da Rainha, is a regional Portuguese museum, that hosts the finest collection of the Portuguese naturalist painterJosé Malhoa. The museum building, the first purpose-built museum in Portugal, was constructed in 1940 and enlarged in 1950 and 1957.^[1] The museum’s collection includespaintings, sculptures, medals, drawings and ceramics from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The museum is located in the city of Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal, in the middle of the D. Carlos I park.

José Vital Branco Malhoa, known simply as José Malhoa (Caldas da Rainha, 28 April 1855 - Figueiró dos Vinhos, 26 October 1933) was a Portuguese painter.

Malhoa was, with Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, the leading name in Portuguese naturalist painting, in the second half of the 19th century. He painted often popular scenes and subjects, like his two most famous paintings, The Drunks (1907) and Fado (1910). He always remained faithful to the naturalist style, but in some of his works, there are impressionist influences, like in his Autumn (1918), that can be considered as an “impressionist exercise”.

He saw at the end of his life, the inauguration of the José Malhoa Museum, in Caldas da Rainha.

Malhoa’s House, also known as the Dr. Anastácio-Gonçalves House-Museum, in Lisbon, was originally built in 1905 as a residence and studio for the artist. It was bought by Dr. Anastácio-Gonçalves, an art collector, a year before the painter’s death, and it became a museum in 1980, showcasing several items from his collection, namely works from Portuguese painters of the 19th and 20th century.

The Glass Museum, in Marinha Grande

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The Glass Museum is a permanent institution, unincorporated and non-profit service of society and its development. Brings together collections that testify to the industrial, artisanal and Portuguese artistic glass since the mid-seventeenth / eighteenth century to the present. It is the only museum specifically devoted to the study of art, craft and glass industry in Portugal.

Although the scope and objectives of the museum on its creation and subsequent development of the museum program has not been extended to earlier times, when you consider its representativeness and national coverage, the research projects that have achieved and who has been involved, and given that it is the only museum of this specialty in Portugal, justified a reflection that led the drafting of the new museum program enlargement of the parameters for incorporating glass essentially archaeological nature prior to industrialization and consequent treatment testimonies, thematic and previous processes to the eighteenth century.

In the field of art, the museum seeks to give representation to various artistic and design trends, looking to bring together an international collection of contemporary art glass, presently consists of dozens of works by Portuguese and foreign artists of the twentieth century to the present.

In addition to the important role the study of the level of the glass industrial activity of the past, the museum also deals with the documentation of this activity and encouraging their continuation in the future.

The Glass Museum is open to the public six days a week, with a diverse cultural program, and is one of the most important centers of individual and collective cultural appreciation in the glass area as well as to attract leisure and tourism flows in region of Marinha Grande.

The museum will continue to play an important role in terms of cultural activity, scientific and educational local, national and international, encouraging the participation of different types of public and particularly the local community – in developing the objectives, functions and its activities.