Discover the Collection

Find out about the masterpieces of the collection collected in life by Calouste Gulbenkian, the Collector and the Museum building, designed to incorporate this collection. Explore the Gulbenkian Collections through the 360º virtual tour and the Google Arts & Culture platform and discover a selection of masterpieces

The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum was designed by the architects Ruy Jervis d’Athouguia, Pedro Cid and Alberto Pessoa (1969) to accommodate around six thousand pieces amassed by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. It is located in the north of the Gulbenkian garden. The galleries of this building are home to displays of around a thousand pieces divided into groups corresponding to Egyptian art, Greco-Roman art, Mesopotamia, the Islamic Orient, Armenia, the Far East and, where Western art is concerned, sculpture, the art of the book, painting, eighteenth-century French decorative arts, and works by René Lalique.

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