In 1863 it was founded by the architect of the Royal House Joaquim Possidónio da Silva, the Association of Portuguese Civil Architects, which gave rise to the current Association of Portuguese Archaeologists. About a year later (1864), the Carmo Archaeological Museum was set up here to store and exhibit important sculptural pieces from ancient ruined buildings (especially the monastic houses extinct in 1834), and elements of the temple itself, discovered among the rubble

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