Combined Ticket - Bragança/Miranda
Temporarily transferred to the premises of the former Episcopal Palace. Free access. Tickets available only at the physical box office.
Open: Summer Time - Tuesday 2 p.m-6 p.m | Wednesday to Sunday 10 a.m-1 p.m / 2 p.m-6 p.m | Winter Time - Tuesday 2 p.m-5.30 p.m | Wednesday to Sunday 9.30 a.m-1 p.m / 2 p.m-5.30 p.m
Closed: Monday; Tuesday morning; 1st January; Easter Sunday; 1st May; 25th December; 10th July (municipal holiday)
Residents in Portugal can enjoy 52 days of free entry per year to museums, monuments, and palaces, on any day of the week. Learn more at museusemonumentos.pt | Access 52 tickets cannot be issued through this online ticket office. Please request them at the physical ticket office of one of our Museums and Monuments.
Open: Tuesday to Sunday 9.30 a.m-12.30 p.m / 2 p.m-6 p.m
Closed: Monday; 1st January; Easter Sunday; 1st May; 25th December; 22th August (municipal holiday)
Residents in Portugal can enjoy 52 days of free entry per year to museums, monuments, and palaces, on any day of the week. Learn more at museusemonumentos.pt | Access 52 tickets cannot be issued through this online ticket office. Please request them at the physical ticket office of one of our Museums and Monuments.
Terra de Miranda Museum
Located in the historic centre of Miranda do Douro, the Miranda Museum occupies the former Domus Municipalis of the city, a building dating from the 17th century that also served as the Municipal Prison.
Since 1982, the building has housed the social, cultural, religious and economic memory of the communities of Terra de Miranda, through its ethnographic and archaeological collections.
Visiting the Terra de Miranda Museum means travelling among the most diverse objects, which are the starting point for the discovery of the ancestral and everyday life of the people of Miranda, where agricultural work, shepherding, traditional crafts and domestic activities are daily life, quintessentially captured by the winter rituals, unique to the North-east Transmontano region, and of course the local Mirandese dialect.
Right next door, Miranda Cathedral, dating from the 16th century and classified as a National Monument, is a must see. Where you can find the impressive image of the Christ Child in a top hat, which has become an icon of Miranda do Douro.
Amongst other treasures you will find The Portraits of the Months from theMiranda do Douro Cathedral, a set of twelve panels painted in Antwerp, around 1580, in the workshop of master painter Pieter Balten andwhich are a very rare example of an iconography that is practically absent in Portuguese artistic heritage.
There are plenty of reasons to travel to Miranda do Douro. Accept the invitation!
Abbey of Baçal Museum
Housed in a building which was once an Episcopal Palace, the Abbot of Baçal Museum, in Bragança, opened its doors to the public in 1927, twelve years after it was created.
Classified as Property of Public Interest, the building houses a permanent exhibition of a large part of the collection from the former Episcopal Palace. The sacred art collection was joined by the collections of the Bragança Municipal Museum and the pieces collected by its first director, Abbot of Baçal and his successor Raúl Teixeira.
Pieces of archaeology, numismatics, epigraphy and ethnography are now part of the Museum's collection and illustrate the history of the North-eastern Transmontano region over the centuries.
More recently, the collection of masks on display shows visitors the important complex ritual of the traditional festive cycle specific to the region, classified in 2019 by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
The presence of the works by Silva Porto, José Malhoa, Aurélia de Sousa or Veloso Salgado in the Museum's collections should also be highlighted, as well as the two series of original drawings by Almada Negreiros, in ink on paper, produced in the 1930s and 1940s and which represent an enormously important, though less well-known, facet of his vast graphic work.
A museum to explore!