Take advantage of FREE entry throughout the day to discover the exhibitions and/or participate in scheduled activities:11.30 am | Guided tour in partnership with APEDV - Association for the Promotion of Employment for the Visually Impaired 15h | Guided visit to the Exhibition "Veloso Salgado. From Lisbon to Wissant" With curator Maria de Aires Silveira 18 pm | Discover a painting by Pires Vieira Conversation with Susana Duarte and the artist Pires Vieira The activity consists of the presentation of the painting “Surface 4” (1969) by the painter Pires Vieira (1950), followed by a reflection on the conservation of this work. 19.30 pm | Opening of the Exhibition "Being Portuguese" at PeP Gallery 21.30 pm | Guided visit to the Exhibition "The NikiaΣ of Nikias" with the curators, Helena Skapinakis and Maria de Aires Silveira
Floor 1 and 2 Rua Serpa Pinto
entry: General ConditionsINTERNATIONAL DAY OF MUSEUMS AT MNAC
2023-05-18
2023-05-18
On Exhibition
Loops.Expanded 2026
2026-07-14
2026-10-03
Curatorship: Irit Batsry
MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado and DuplaCena present, for the 11th consecutive year, an exhibition dedicated to the loop as a seminal form of the moving image.
On Gestures and Forms
A dialogue between collections
2026-06-18
2026-09-20
Curatorship: MNAA e MNAC
Works from the collections of Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, and Fundação Millennium bcp, engage in a dialogue across different periods, materials, and approaches to artistic creation.
Alice Geirinhas
Sycorax
2026-05-29
2026-09-20
Curatorship: Lúcia Saldanha e Rui Afonso Santos
Sycorax is an installation of drawings that summons the absent and silenced figure of Sycorax, the witch and mother of Caliban, characters from "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare.
Ultratremor
Group show
2026-05-29
2026-09-27
Curatorship: Germano Dushá
Between the visible and the invisible, the exhibition brings together artists who explore states of transformation, apparition, and resonance, bringing matter, imagination, and spiritual experience into dialogue.
Maria José Oliveira
I who once was I
2026-05-15
2026-10-04
Curatorship: Paula Parente Pinto
Maria José Oliveira transforms everyday materials and discarded objects into territories of memory, ritual, and metamorphosis, where time itself becomes a living material of artistic creation.
Impressões Digitais. MNAC Collection
2024-12-12
2026-12-30
Curatorship: Ana Guimarães, Emília Ferreira, Maria de Aires Silveira e Tiago Beirão Veiga
Consisting of founding works of contemporary Portuguese art historiography, from 1850 to the present day, the MNAC's collection holds several national treasures.
