The selection of 163 pieces from all sections of the collection assembled by Calouste Gulbenkian, reproduced in this Album, establishes a memory of the museum’s permanent exhibition, creating a thrilling sequence of the objects on show in a chronological order that happens to coincide with history but which, above all, gives an hint to the personal and mysterious logic of the collector’s taste. The texts gathered here were written by the team of museum curators.