Happy #Wednesdaywalk to all of you guys and many thanks to the both hosts of this amazing Wednesday event, our beloved 
Today I present you a new new new museu. I was visiting it with my cousin on sunday, 30th of October 2022 at 15 pm. Photos were taken with my Huawei P30.
Hm, think you will need around 8 min to read my post and watch ~200 #photographs.... Take a coffee and enjoy the walk.
The exactly Adress is:
R. Serpa Pinto 4, 1200-444 Lisboa
website of the museum:
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov.pt/
lets go for a walk...
... That was our intention. So my cousin and I set off through the streets of Lisbon. The weather was okay, not too sunny, but also no rain. Just right to explore the city again.
Spontaneously we came up with the idea to go to the museum. We were just there around the corner in a coffee briefly brunch. Because the museum was only about 10 min away from our coffee spot we just walked over.
we went the street up, up, uuuuup.
About the Museum
The National Museum of Contemporary Art was created by Decree of the Republic on May 26, 1911. It was born from the division of the former National Museum of Fine Arts into the National Museum of Ancient Art, which inherited the works created until 1850 and housed in the Palace of Janelas Verdes, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, which in turn included all the works created after that decided date and was housed in the Convent of S. Francisco in a room next to the Academy of Fine Arts.
The creation of a nationwide network of museums was the realization of a modernist project, informed by the 19th century ideology of the free enlightenment of citizens, which provided and embellished the country with the necessary instruments for the preservation and disclosure of national art. Unpublished and pioneering, in the international context, was the creation of a museum of contemporary art at that time.
The creation of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in the Convent of S. Francisco, was symbolic and came at the right time, because it was located in the area frequented by the tertúlias of the generations represented in the museum.
the entrance
The entrance looks a bit bleak from the outside at first, but what's behind the doors is terrific.
The entrance can be closed and secured by a large metal gate. When you enter, you first see glass doors and the reception area, where you pay the entrance fee. We were there on a Sunday, so we paid what was on the receipt.
From the first floor you can wander through the first rooms and see many a work of art, which hang here as pictures on the wall and present interior design mostly.
0 Floor
1 Floor
Is a bit tricky, that you can better understand my way, first we went to the left side when we were at the 1 Floor. From there other stairs went up. On the back way we when to the right side here, where you will find the garden. But this comes at the end.
lets walk a level up... 1 floor.
This you see directly when you walked up.
turn to the left and walk this way first.
love the #architecture of this museum
earth arte? Arte de terra....? Whatever life is art so the planet too
lets walk another half level up...
2 Floor
here you see the next way with some introduction about whats going on here 😜🎨🎶😁✨
but know just lets take a walk around and let the art and history of art speak a bit for itself...
lets go up this stairways to heaven...
On the right you can see that by going up
But first we go straight. To the right we will go on the back way.
This room had also some acoustic sounds. Like meditation vibes. Was nice in it.
From time to time such screens where placed. Here is a living landscape video playing in a loop.
This water screen was standing in a dark room. It looked like a smaaaall cinema. With 8 seats behind.
Of course if you wanna see the single #collections check out the museums website directly here:
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov.pt/pt/colecao
some architecture
"MULTIPLICITY"
LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENAL
This is the name of it. You can check out more here:
http://www.museuartecontemporanea.gov.pt/pt/programacao/2028
Most of the world is building itself – without architects. As cities expand at an unprecedented rate, how can the disciplines of design and architecture be reinvented to respond to growing inequalities, climate change and conflict? Multiplicity presents a diversity of collective or informal processes from the Global South that adapt and subvert modes of action with ad-hoc methods to face these global challenges, as well as examples of projects at different scales that expand the definition of architecture, its forms and protagonists.
Multiplicity features the work of individuals, practices and multiple organisations from across the globe experimenting in myriad ways with architecture. Often working in challenging environmental, social and political conditions, these practitioners are pushing the boundaries of practice. In the process, they challenge our staid definition of what architecture is, while reclaiming and redefining it as a potent tool in fighting for environmental, economic and social equity and justice. An agile, new architecture of institutions and community, mirroring and learning from the uncertainties of our time is emerging in the process.
The interior design 'ash' prevails on the 2nd floor and the upper rooms. I like that style. This grey white rooms and corridors are amazing. Also in this area where many sculptures are exhibited, whose high vertical crack is to increase the reduced exposure space, according to the intended #architecture.
A paved staircase leads to the second floor of the building.
Here one finds what is known as the "Room of Ovens," a large space originally built between the years 1830 to 1840 by Wheelhouse, which housed a series of brick ovens.
A modern staircase leads to a square gallery that descends to the Sculpture Hall and provides access to both internal offices for staff, but also leads to the terrace, which is open to visitors.
From the rear gallery you can access an attached space, an experimental room clad in wood, where natural and artificial light alternate.
Adjacent to this area are the rooms of the library and the drawing office, perhaps the areas where the memory of the monastery is most visible, for example in the vaulted roofs or in the pairs of columns that stand out against the technical equipment.
Unfortunately, not all the rooms could be visited. Many were also locked, as well as the top area was also closed off. But maybe this will be accessible during your visit.
Also a really interesting and nice room.
We went first straight through this gate because we wanted to see what is at the end...
But we found only locked doors and some letters at the wall...
So we went back and check which incredible artwork we found...
The architecture here is genius harmonic in my point of view.
After starring for a while at this big artwork we went the whole way back. At this point I don't show the back way you already saw all artwork. I will start with this here again. Which I only photographed when going up...
And we walked the other way around a bit.... But damn this part was closed and not possible to visit.
So we went back where we came from. At least we wanted to see the #art #garden. 😍✨🎶
Some birdy perspective. Hehe.
Here the sculpture I first photographed from downstairs.
lost in #arte
Guys, at some point I was just lost in the place. Soooo many floors and rooms to enter and to see... Walked up and down, round and round.... Woouuuhooouuu. What a funny and genius labyrinth. Like that.
the Arte Garden
Now lets get some fresh air and see more art...
At the end of our little tour and journey, we descended through a staircase suspended from the outdoor garden space with some amazing bronze sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries. From the garden we again access through a glass door to the elevated walkway in the lobby, going down to the reception and out of the museum. That was our little #Wednesdaywalk.
Hope I could give you a good #Impression about this amazing #museum. Autumn time is museum time for me, so stay up-to-date which will come next.
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