Acquisitions Policy

The CAM Collection comprises around 12 000 artworks from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing in particular on Portuguese art, but without excluding significant works of international art.

Throughout the history of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, the criteria for the incorporation of new works into the Collection, whether through acquisition, donation, bequest or exchange, have varied according to the guidelines established with each change of management. 

In a museological context in which the physical exhibition and reserve spaces are limited and where the preservation of the Collection’s quality must be a priority, the existence of criteria for artworks joining the Collection becomes particularly important.