Casa Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves

On Avenida Cinco de Outubro, the Dr Anastácio Gonçalves House-Museum has something rare about it: even before you step inside, it already feels like a work of art. Built in 1904 and 1905 as the home and studio of the painter José Malhoa, it was designed by Norte Júnior and became Lisbon’s first artist’s house, receiving the Valmor Prize as early as 1905. The façade, with the great window of the former studio, the tile friezes and the Art Nouveau details, reveals an architecture conceived for light, for creation and for the pleasure of looking. In 1932, the doctor and collector Anastácio Gonçalves bought the house and turned it into the setting for his remarkable collection, now numbering around three thousand works. During a visit, it is worth sensing that meeting between domestic intimacy and cultivated taste: Portuguese painting, Chinese porcelain, furniture and small objects live together here as though the house were still inhabited by art.