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Biscainhos Museum

It is a Baroque noble house in the centre of Braga, from the 17th and 18th centuries with 19th-century additions. The Braga District Board bought it in 1963 and it opened as a museum in 1978. The noble hall has a ceiling painted in 1724, attributed to Manuel Furtado de Mendonça, and there is a tile room, a dining room, a music room and the so-called Council of the Gods room, as well as a monumental staircase. On the ground floor are preserved the covered courtyard of honour, the stables, the coach house and the kitchen. The collections show decorative arts, musical instruments and means of transport. Behind the house is a Baroque garden of about one hectare on three terraces, with box parterres, fountains, tiled walls and a tulip tree that is among its most notable trees. The museum reopened on 31 May 2025 after a conservation intervention.

Things to do at Biscainhos Museum: 4 missions

• Go down the terraces of the Baroque gardenWalk the garden's three terraces, with their box parterres and fountains, and look for the tulip tree.
• Look at the painted ceiling of the noble hallGo into the noble hall and look up at the ceiling painted in 1724, attributed to Manuel Furtado de Mendonça.
• Visit the kitchen, the stables and the coach houseOn the ground floor, go into the kitchen and find the coach house with the collection's means of transport.
• Find the tile roomWalk through the main floor to the tile room and look at its panels.

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Source: Web oficial - Museus e Monumentos de Portugal