A new (and valuable) museum opens its doors next week in Lisbon
For the first time, Crown jewels and pieces of Portuguese royal jewelery will have their “own and permanent address”. From June 1st, exhibitions on display at the Royal Treasury Museum, in the west wing of the Ajuda National Palace, in Lisbon. The collection comprises more than a thousand pieces, including the emerald lace by D. Mariana or the tobacco box ordered by D. José from the goldsmith of the King of France in the 18th century.
Presented as “the jewel of Lisbon”, the new Royal Treasury Museum opens its doors next week and is designed to project the capital “as an increasingly attractive destination for residents and visitors from all over the world”.
In the new museum exhibited “a collection with more than a thousand pieces”. A single one of estimable value” that is made up of rare and valuable “which are the decorations, coins and pieces of our civil and religious heritage jewels, such as heritage jewels of D. Mariana, the one you think”. be the second largest gold nugget in the world or the tobacco box ordered by D. José from the goldsmith of the King of France, in the 19th century. XVIII, and what lover of Louis XV did not want to let leave Paris”.
Unique of important objects and luxury objects that can be represented more vividly by their dimension, personality and more vivid symbols from the Ajuda National Palace to the Ajuda National Palace, the home of the kings of Portugal”.
The exhibition took place in 11 trips, ranging from gold and diamonds from Brazil to the coins and medals of the Crown, passing through the Germain Germain and the Royal Treasury, “in a thoughtful approach to the origin and pieces of the pieces from the next” .
“The Royal Treasury Museum, in the Artistic Functions and Its Symbolic Pieces at the Service of the Monarchy of Representation of Ceremonial Power, in the Devotion of Diplomatic Activity or in the Eighteenth Century Collection”, highlighted in a statement as several entities involved in this new museological project, whose “ operational and tourist management linked to a load”.
Open from Monday to Sunday, between 10:00 and 19:00 (in summer) and 18:00 (in winter), tickets for the Royal Treasure Museum between seven (young and old) and 10 euros, but there are for families and schools.