Museums
The Capelinhos, also referred to in literature as volcanological Mystery Capelinhos, located in Ponta dos Capelinhos, village of Capelo, Faial Island in the Azores. It constitutes one of the biggest attractions of the Atlantic, including the Azores, the uniqueness of its landscape beauty, very recent and almost virgin genesis. Geologically is part of the volcanic […]
Museu Scrimshaw Peter’s Scrimshaw Museum started in 1986 and is now a place that those who travel to Faial must visit. In the Azores, scrimshaw was not born on board, but on land through the hands of regional craftsmen. The best scrimshaw artists who worked on the islands are represented in the collections of the […]
The Flores Museum is an institution owned by the Regional Directorate of Culture consists of two poles Museological: Environmental and Cultural Center in Boqueirão Whale Factory The factory Whale is one of the important buildings but the whaling architecture, ordered built for the use of whale oil, which was the first great Florentine industry and […]
The Horta Museum is located in the city and county of Horta on Faial in the Azores. The collection of the institution has several collections on the history of Faial. Among them are works from fig tree pith, artist Faial Euclides Silveira da Rosa, born on the island of Faial in 1907 and died in […]
The Pico Museum is located on Pico Island in the Azores. It integrates the Regional Network of Museums. The institution has a tripolar structure, comprising three extensions: The Whaling Museum, in Lajes do Pico Whaling Industry Museum, in São Roque do Pico Wine Museum in Madalena. Them presents collective memories associated with regional cycles – […]
The various collections that make up the collection of this museum are mainly ethnographic and articles are dated from the nineteenth and twentieth century and include the themes of ceramics, textiles and weaving, agriculture, livestock and also the furniture. One of the most important collections of this museum refers to the Maestro Francisco de Lacerda […]
The Museum of Graciosa is located in the town and county of Santa Cruz Graciosa in Graciosa Island in the Azores. It is currently housed in the former bulk of the building site once used for storage of grain and wine produced on the island. The collection seeks to recreate historical, ethnographic and cultural events […]
The Angra do Heroísmo Museum is a museum of synthesis, where it seeks to reflect, at the same time, a story with their facts and political and economic movements marked by the Atlantic domain and a culture in its many forms and meanings generated and molded an insular existence. It is installed since 1969 in […]
The current collections of the Carlos Machado Museum, subject to minor collections in the field of epigraphy, agro-industrial and decorative arts technologies, spread across four main sections: Natural History, Art, Religious Art and Ethnography. The Natural History collections relate to the museum’s founding in the late nineteenth century, and reflect the scientific spirit of the […]
The Museum of Santa Maria is located in the parish of the Espirito Santo – Holy Spirit, the municipality of Vila do Porto, the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. It is a government institution dedicated to ethnography and the dissemination and cultural promotion that integrates the network of museums of the Azores, working […]
