Art Nouveau Museum

The Art Nouveau museum, in Aveiro

The Art Nouveau museum of Aveiro celebrates this artistic movement with sinuous lines and floral motifs that marked the city at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Aveiro audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this delicate current, active in Aveiro from 1904 to 1920, carried by the bourgeoisie and emigrants enriched in Brazil, and the route of about ten buildings with worked façades and polychrome tiles that make its fame.

History

Aveiro is often compared to Venice, but the city also shares similarities with other major destinations, near or far, like Barcelona, Brussels, Helsinki or Havana. All are part of the Art Nouveau Network, committed to safeguarding and valuing the Art Nouveau style heritage on a worldwide scale. In Aveiro, this movement was active only for a short time, between 1904 and 1920, at a time when there was not yet a precise name to qualify this delicate current, recognisable by its sinuous lines, its organic forms, its floral motifs and its ornamental aesthetic, in rupture with the previous traditional styles. Its presence and its expansion in Aveiro, Art Nouveau owes them to the conservative bourgeoisie and to a few emigrants having made a fortune in Brazil, who used it to express their social and economic power. Today, about ten buildings with worked façades and polychrome tiles are gathered in a route dedicated to this style; the museum, installed in an emblematic house, presents stained glass, furniture and decorations of it.

What to see

Here you discover the museum dedicated to the Art Nouveau of Aveiro, a current with sinuous lines and floral motifs active from 1904 to 1920, carried by the bourgeoisie and emigrants enriched in Brazil; installed in an emblematic house, it presents stained glass, furniture and decorations, and invites you to follow the route of about ten buildings with worked façades. The Art Nouveau museum reveals a refined face of Aveiro. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Art Nouveau museum of Aveiro is installed in an emblematic house of the centre, reachable on foot. It is a museum whose access and hours follow the conditions in force, which vary; it is also the starting point of a route dedicated to the Art Nouveau buildings of the city. It is best to enquire before coming.

What is the Art Nouveau in Aveiro?

It is an artistic movement with sinuous lines, organic forms and floral motifs, active in Aveiro from 1904 to 1920, carried by the conservative bourgeoisie and emigrants enriched in Brazil to express their status; about ten buildings with worked façades and polychrome tiles testify to it, gathered in a route, and the museum installed in an emblematic house presents stained glass, furniture and decorations of it.

Where is the Art Nouveau museum in Aveiro?

In an emblematic house of the centre of Aveiro, in Portugal.