Key Highlight: The chapel is adorned with not only plenty of azulejos (Portuguese tiles), but also centuries-old oil paintings. One of the most notable aspects of Lisbon's alluring architecture is its ...

Founded in 1833, the Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis ranks as Portugal's first public art museum. Art lovers will appreciate the expansive collection as well as the ornate building that it occupies.

Major pieces of Brazil's scientific and cultural heritage went up in smoke on September 2, as a devastating fire ripped through much of Rio de Janeiro's Museu Nacional, or National Museum. Founded in ...

Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro is the oldest scientific institution in Brazil. In 2018 it was devastated by a huge fire that destroyed more than 90 per cent of its archive. Almost two years after ...

For more than 200 years, Brazil's National Museum—or Museu Nacional—stood as the country's oldest and most important safeguard for its heritage. Now, one of Latin America's largest natural history ...

Give us the wide-angle view: what's this place all about? The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) is in upscale Recoleta, just a few blocks away from the cemetery, and located on one of the longest ...

A fire on 2 September 2018 destroyed one of Latin America's most important scientific and anthropological institutions, the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. After the fire, UNESCO - through its ...