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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Alberto Pessoa, Pedro Cid & Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia

Photo: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Client / Owner
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Year
Completed 1969
Access
Tickets required
Typology
Cultural

The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon was designed by Alberto J. Pessoa, Pedro Cid and Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia, with landscape architects António Viana Barreto and Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles. Francisco Caetano Keil do Amaral later joined as a consultant. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation founded the museum. The infobox gives 1957 as the establishment year, while the text places land acquisition in April 1957 and the inauguration on October 2, 1969.

The article names no style and describes a simple shape with T-shaped wings. It names no materials for the main building. The 2024 CAM redevelopment used ash planks and handmade white tiles, with a canopy 328 feet (100 m) long. About 1,000 of roughly 6,000 items are on display.

The museum closed for renovation and reopened on July 18, 2026. It had 413,000 visitors in 2024. The article gives no hours.

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