The São Roque Museum , also called the São Roque Museum of Sacred Art , is attached to the São Roque Church in Lisbon and has a collection of sacred art from the Lisbon Santa Casa da Misericórdia estate.

The museum was inaugurated with a public presentation of the Santa Casas art collection, which took place in 1898, the year in Lisbon commemorating Vasco da Gamas arrival in u00cdndia and the 400th anniversary of the institution. On this occasion only the treasures of the treasury of the Chapel of St. John the Baptist, commissioned by D. John V to Rome for the Church of St. Roque, were presented.

Later, the Holy House prepares a permanent exhibition not only of the chapels treasure, but also of the most relevant works, of the institutions artistic heritage. For this, some rooms of the old professed house of the Company of Jesus were chosen, dependencies that, annexed to the temple, were from 1783 where the extraction of the National Lottery took place. This was what the São Roque Museum looked like at the time of its first opening in 1905.

It was the subject of successive reforms until the 1960s, when it began a process of remodeling and enhancing its collections, resulting in the reopening of the public in 1968.

Since it was founded in 1498, the Misericórdia de Lisboa has brought together a vast historical, artistic and documentary heritage, including the collections of the Museum and the São Roque Church, classified as a National Monument in 1910. 

The São Roque Museum is a of the most important symbols of its cultural heritage, possessing an enviable collection of Portuguese sacred art.

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