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Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art is the Serralves Foundation's museum, in a building by Álvaro Siza Vieira in the grounds of the Serralves Estate in Porto.

Why go

The Serralves Foundation says the framework for its Museum of Contemporary Art was laid when the foundation was created in 1989, that Álvaro Siza Vieira was commissioned in 1991 to design the museum in the grounds of the Serralves Estate, and that the museum opened on 6 June 1999. The museum shows the Serralves Collection and a changing programme of exhibitions, with cinema, dance, music and performance in its auditorium. The foundation's visit page lists a general ticket covering all of its spaces, among them the museum, the Álvaro Siza Wing, the park, the Treetop Walk, the Serralves Villa and the House of Cinema, alongside a park-only ticket, and says guided group visits need prior booking. This record is the museum; Serralves Park around it is a separate record.

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City

Porto

Porto is the city at the Douro River estuary that is the seat of Porto municipality and district; Visit Porto, the city council's tourism site, says its historic centre was declared UNESCO World Heritage in 1996. XTOUR maps the cathedral, the Clérigos church and tower, the Palácio da Bolsa, the Soares dos Reis National Museum, Bolhão Market and the Serralves museum and park in the city.

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