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National Museum of the Azulejo

Date
1960
Official website
www.museudoazulejo.gov.pt
Hours and prices
check the official website, they change with the season
National Museum of the Azulejo

The Museu Nacional do Azulejo, occasionally known in English as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum in Lisbon, Portugal dedicated to the azulejo, traditional tilework of Portugal and the former Portuguese Empire, as well as of other Iberophone cultures. Housed in the former Madre de Deus Convent, the museum’s collection is one of the largest of ceramics in the world.

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