Drawing Courses Introduction to the Bargue method Trainer: Nelson Ferreira Location: Multipurpose Room, MNAC Entrance through Capelo Street, 13 Dates: February 25-28, 2020 Daily duration: 3h30mn Opening hours: 14h00 to 17h30. Cost *: 180 € general public; 150 € museum friends Target audience: all levels, from beginners to professional artists Registrations through 21 343 21 48 or to museuchiado@mnac.dgpc.pt Saturday 29/02/2020 and Sunday 01/03/2020 Daily duration: 6 hours - Hours: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm. Cost *: 180 € general public; 150 € museum friends Target audience: all levels, from beginners to professional artists Registrations through 21 343 21 48 or to museuchiado@mnac.dgpc.pt * The cost includes all necessary materials Within the scope of the exhibition “Biography of the Trace. Drawing Collection (1836-1920) ”, patent in MNAC (Sala dos Fornos) from 7 February to 31 May 2020, curated by Maria de Aires Silveira, the MNAC Educational Service provides its visitors and friends with a real drawing experience with a technique widely disseminated and practiced in academies in the 19th century. Taught by Nelson Ferreira, painter, draftsman and Drawing teacher, with extensive tutorial experience in national museums in Portugal and England, the courses are aimed at the general public, from beginners to professionals. As the trainer says, the “Bargue course was the most acclaimed method in the 19th century to train the great geniuses of drawing, with a real ability to draw (by eye, without taking any measures except the height and the total width). This rigorous training is similar to the studies that academic artists like Soares dos Reis, José Malhoa or John Singer Sargent did (as well as modernists who knew how to draw, like Picasso). ”
Multipurpose
entry: General ConditionsDrawing. Introduction to the Bargue method
2020-02-29
2020-03-01
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.
