Museums and Palaces

Armindo Teixeira Lopes' Museum was inaugurated in 1981 and is located in Mirandela's Cultural Centre. It is one of the major museologic references of the Northeast province of Trás-os-Montes. The heirs of Mirandela's multifaceted plastic artist Armindo Teixeira Lopes, donated an important artistic property which is exposed in the Museum and is its permanent fund, along with other offers and occasional purchases made by the municipality of Mirandela.

The museum consists of works of contemporary art, primarily from the twentieth century, mostly Portuguese. The collection consists of about 500 pieces covering mainly the areas of painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture, and other less representative as photography and medals.

Artists of major national and international prestige are represented in the Museum from whom we can stand out, among others, the following names: Armindo Teixeira Lopes, Gil Teixeira Lopes, Hilário Teixeira Lopes, Nadir Afonso, Júlio Resende, Júlio Pomar, João Hogan, Graça Morais, Malangatana, Manuel Cargaleiro, Mário Cesariny, João Abel Manta, Antoni Tàpies, Almada Negreiros, Artur Bual, Vieira da Silva, José Rodrigues e Ângelo de Sousa.