Palace of the Biscainhos Museum of the Biscainhos
The Biscainhos Palace is located in the parish of Sé, city and municipality of Braga, district of the same name, in Portugal.
The Museum of Biscainhos is housed in the Palace of Biscainhos - housing of the counts of Bertiandos - founded in the seventeenth century and transformed in the first half of the eighteenth century. In 1978 it was converted into Museum. The palace, the Baroque gardens and their collections reveal the daily life of the 18th century nobility and other inhabitants of the space: chaplains, servants and slaves.
The permanent exhibition allows the contextualized knowledge of decorative art collections (furniture, jewelery, ceramics, glass, textiles, metals, etc.), musical instruments, means of transport, engraving, sculpture / carving, tile and painting, between the 17th and the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
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