Skip to main content
XTOUR

Museum · Braga, Porto and the North

Biscainhos Museum

Palácio dos Biscainhos · Museu dos Biscainhos

The Biscainhos Museum is a Baroque town palace with formal gardens in central Braga, open to the public as a museum since 1978 and now presented by its operator as the Palácio dos Biscainhos.

Why go

The palace's site, part of Museus e Monumentos de Portugal, describes the Palácio dos Biscainhos as a residential house built up from the 17th to the 19th century, bought by the District Assembly of Braga in 1963 and opened to the public as a museum in 1978. The visit covers the ground-floor service spaces, among them the covered courtyard, stables, coach house and kitchen, and the state rooms of the main floor with their tiles, paintings and sculpture, as well as the 18th-century gardens. Its visit page lists separate tickets for the palace, for the gardens, and for both. This record is the museum and the palace it occupies, which Wikidata keeps as one item.

Base yourself nearby

City

Braga

Braga is a city in northern Portugal and the seat of its municipality and district; the municipality traces the city's origin to the Roman city of Bracara Augusta. XTOUR maps Braga Cathedral, the Biscainhos Museum, the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte and the Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães in Braga municipality, and treats the Peneda-Gerês National Park, which lies in other municipalities, as a place reached from Braga.

Near Biscainhos Museum

Continue exploring