Carlos Machado Museum
Location:
Convento de Santo André
9500-075 Ponta Delgada
Phone: (351) 296 283 814 / 296 285 532
Fax: (351) 296 629 504
e-mail: museu.cmachado.info@azores.gov.pt
site: http://museus.azores.gov.pt
Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Fridays 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m
Saturdays and Sundays 2.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Closed to the public on Mondays and bank holidays.
Entry:
Normal ticket: 2.50 Euros
Discount tickets: 50% discount for holders of a Cartão Jovem, people aged between 15 and 25, retired people, pensioners, people aged over 65 and teachers of any level of education.
Free entry: Sundays, International Museum Day (18th of May), children up to 14, holders of Cartão Interjovem, members of APOM/ICOM, researchers, journalists and tourism professionals (on providing proof of their position), teachers and students (as part of programmed study visits) protectors of the arts and sciences and members of Associations of the Friends of the respective museums, employees of the Regional Board of Culture and dependent services.
Curator:
Presidency of the Azores Regional Government
Regional Board of Culture
The creation of the Carlos Machado Museum reflected the scientific mentality of the 19th century. The great interest in the islands, demonstrated by naturalists of the second half of the 19th century after the publication of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and the Oceanographic expeditions of His Highness, Prince Albert of Monaco and King D. Carlos, were determining factors in the founding of the Natural History Museum. The first collections were brought together by Carlos Maria Gomes Machado, Rector of the former Liceu Nacional de Ponta Delgada and professor of the subject Introduction to Natural History. In 1880 the then called “Azorean Museum” was inaugurated, exhibiting various collections of Natural Sciences, namely, Zoology, Botany, Geology and Mineralogy, which today are considered historic. In homage to the founder, from 1914 onwards it was renamed the Carlos Machado Museum.
The Carlos Machado Museum houses a collection of wide thematic diversity, which can be seen in three great collections: Natural History, which goes back to the creation of the Museum in the 19th century and shows the scientific mentality and which today is na historic collection, from a museological point of view; Art, with pieces going back to the 16th century up until the present day, the majority of which are included in the arrears of Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, Sacred Arts and Toys; Regional Ethnography, brought together with the objective of preserving popular culture and which today allows an understanding of people’s day to day lives, above all on the island of São Miguel.
Services:
Educational Service
Activity: Guided visits;
Diverse activities with school children related to the museum’s temporary exhibitions.
Contact: maria.ep.albergaria@azores.gov.pt
Documentation centre
Diverse themes
Shop
Sale of informative and promotional material.
Available facilities
Available spaces:
Convent cloisters – capacity 200 people with 100 seated places
Jesuit College Church – capacity 300 people with 200 seated places
Price list: Portaria n.º 69/2004 de 12 de Agosto
Form: Despacho n.º 635/2004 de 17 de Agosto
Hymn of Love
Canto da Maia (1890 - 1981), Terracota, 1929.
The Emigrants
Domingos Rebelo (1891 - 1975) , Oil on Canvas, 1926.
Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara
Coimbra School (Vicente Gil and Manuel Vicente), Oil on Word, 16th Century.
