Saturday, October 26, 2019 Lisbon
After lunch, our group traveled to the Museu Nacional dos Coches - the national coaches museum. Now why, you might wonder?
Well, the museum has been in place since 1905, but in 2015, they moved into a new building designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. The new premises is a large long space that allows all the coaches and accessories to be displayed that weren't previously shown. It was an interesting building, but not sure I would have picked it out for the content of the museum.
But we did tour the contents, with the most interesting of coaches having more baroque decorations than many churches. Most of the really fancy ones were used by the royals or the pope. This building is also on the Tagus River with great views of the red bridge.
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| This sweet fella is ready to take you on a carriage ride at the National Museum of Coaches |
After lunch, our group traveled to the Museu Nacional dos Coches - the national coaches museum. Now why, you might wonder?
Well, the museum has been in place since 1905, but in 2015, they moved into a new building designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. The new premises is a large long space that allows all the coaches and accessories to be displayed that weren't previously shown. It was an interesting building, but not sure I would have picked it out for the content of the museum.
But we did tour the contents, with the most interesting of coaches having more baroque decorations than many churches. Most of the really fancy ones were used by the royals or the pope. This building is also on the Tagus River with great views of the red bridge.
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| Interior space of the museum |
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| A coach for delivering mail (reminds me a bit of the US western stage coaches |
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| Exuberance stylized for one of the royal coaches |
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