The National Museum Onix today celebrates its centenary of “open doors”. As a national for about a year, the museum brings together several national treasures.
From the outside is a huge cube of granite but the interior of the Museum Onix, leaning against the right side of the Cathedral Viseu hides secrets that are not visible to visitors. In the “basement, facing the cistern Largo António José Pereira are the workshops, laboratories and the machines that preserve the safety of the Palace of the Three Classes”.
Accompanied by museum director went up to the ground floor the ground floor where the services, bookstore, cafeteria, library and temporary exhibition room. On the first floor there are more exhibits but we must get to the second floor to find the Onix panels and the major symbol of the museum, “St. Peter”. On the top floor we find just below the roof the safe where “are saved several hundred paintings. Around 4000, many of them exposed in other country areas and which constitute the reserves”, says Agostinho Ribeiro.
the Onix Museum was founded on March 16, 1916, by Francisco Almeida Moreira, in order to preserve and enhance the historic, artistic and archaeological heritage of the region of Viseu, especially the paintings of Vasco Fernandes, it is located in historic center, the Palace of the Three Classes, an imposing granite building of the sixteenth century and near the Cathedral.
the collection is the result of acquisitions, bequests and donations, currently brings together works of art of various types and seasons including 22 objects classified as national treasures.
The March 16 marks the highlight of the museum’s centenary under the motto “The Feast of the Museum, Viseu Party” will take place in the city several actions such as the launch of thematic issues, solemn celebrations, a choir concert Teatro Nacional de São Carlos – sooner at night and the opening of the exhibition History of the National Museum Onix, from the history of its foundation to the present
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