The Gulbenkian Fine Arts Museum: the best least known museum in Europe.
The Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, is a fine art museum I had never heard of until I discovered it while visiting this city; I now want to sing its praises. I knew the Prado, the Louvre, and most of the other “big guns” of the EU, but I never had heard of this museum with the funny name. I read an article about the museum which described it just this way: An underrated fine art museum that can claim its place among the best in Europe, if only we knew of it!
What is unique about the Gulbenkian is its curation of small but superb representative samples of painting, sculpture, decorative art, furnishings, fashion and jewelry spanning a broad range of eras and cultures. Each piece is of exquisite quality and in excellent condition. The Gulbenkian is not a museum that strives to corner the market in any particular genre, era or medium. It can’t claim to be the mecca of Impressionist…
