Museu Coleção Berardo Lisboa, Portugal

The Berardo Collection Museum is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Belém, a district of Lisbon, Portugal.

The museum was initiated as the Foundation of Modern and Contemporary Art on August 9, 2006 (Decree-Law 164/2006). It was inaugurated on June 25, 2007 and is named after José Berardo and his Berardo Collection.[1] The museum is located at the Exhibition Center of the Centro Cultural de Belém, with a collection comprising over 1000 works of art on permanent display and temporary exhibitions.

From its opening until April 2011, the museum's art director was Jean-François Chougnet, who was then replaced by Pedro Lapa.

The programming of the museum is guided by the rotation of various artistic movements that integrate the collection of works from the collection valued by the auction house Christie's at €316 million. The museum's collection is representative of the fine arts of the 20th century and early 21st century, especially European and American art. The collection covers major movements from surrealism to pop art, hyper-realism, minimalist art to conceptual art, presented in various media. It covers Portuguese modern and contemporary art in particular.

The museum has an extensive permanent collection and also hosts temporary exhibitions that change on a regular basis.

The Museu Coleção Berardo presents the most significant artistic movements from the twentieth century to the present day. In this museum, it is possible to find works by artists from the most diverse cultural contexts and with the most varied forms of expression, all of whom would come to make up the art history of the last century. Names such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Vieira da Silva, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Bruce Nauman, among many others, are presented within the framework of the artistic movements which their works allowed to define through a chronological succession that enables the spectator to take a trip through the period in question.

On the floor 2, the visitor can find an initial section devoted to historic avant-garde movements such as Cubist Space, Dadaism, Constructivisms, Surrealism, Informalism and Pop Art. Covering a major area of the floor -1, the continuation of the route through the second half of the twentieth century through to the present day is marked out, presenting Minimalism, Conceptualism, Arte Povera, as well as the wide range of approaches that have come to construct the present.

Throughout this broad historical panorama, it is also be possible to discover the small stories that have not been confined to the unity of an axiom but have actualised other possibilities, constituting in themselves an ongoing creation of other expressions and other times within history itself.

Free entrance / open every day, Monday to Sunday, from 10:00 - 19:00 (last admission: 18:30).
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