Skip to main content
XTOUR

Museum · São Sebastião, Ponta Delgada, Azores

Carlos Machado Museum

Museu Carlos Machado - Núcleo de Santo André

The Carlos Machado Museum, founded in Ponta Delgada in 1876, is housed in the former Santo André convent on São Miguel, Azores; this record is that site, the museum's Núcleo de Santo André.

Why go

Visit Azores says the museum was founded in 1876 by Carlos Maria Gomes Machado and is housed in the former Santo André Convent, beginning with Azorean natural history collections and later adding sacred art, regional ethnography, painting, tiles, sculpture, gold and silver work and old toys. Ponta Delgada's municipal tourism site says it was created as the Museu Açoriano in the old Liceu, opened to the public in 1880, took its founder's name after 1914, brought its collections together in the Santo André convent after acquiring it in 1930, and opened reworked visitor circuits in the former convent in 2016. The same site lists two other sites of the museum: the Núcleo de Arte Sacra, installed in 2006 in the church of the former Jesuit College, and the Núcleo de Santa Bárbara, opened in 2010. This record is the Santo André site; the other two are separate places. Opening hours and tickets are set by the museum; check its own site before you go.

Base yourself nearby

City

Ponta Delgada

Ponta Delgada is a city on the island of São Miguel in the Azores and the seat of the municipality of the same name. XTOUR maps the city gates, the Igreja Matriz de São Sebastião and the Carlos Machado Museum there, and treats the island's crater lakes and Furnas separately.

Near Carlos Machado Museum

Continue exploring