Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro

In a seventeenth-century house in the heart of Porto, the Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro preserves the collection of the poet and politician Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (1850-1923). Furniture, ceramics, textiles, goldsmithery and religious art fill its rooms, giving an intimate picture of a nineteenth-century collector’s taste.

A poet’s collection

Guerra Junqueiro was one of the best-known Portuguese poets of his generation, and his house holds the objects he gathered throughout his life, from Portuguese and oriental ceramics to furniture, ivories and religious sculpture. The museum opened in the house in the 1970s and is part of Porto’s municipal museum network.

What to see

• Portuguese and oriental ceramics.
• Furniture, textiles and decorative arts.
• Goldsmithery, ivories and religious sculpture.
• The house itself, with its chapel and garden.

Visiting the museum

The museum is at Rua de D. Hugo 32, 4050-305 Porto, in the historic centre near the cathedral. Opening hours are published by the municipality, so check the official website before your visit.

Visitor information: museudoporto.pt.

Image credit: Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro, Porto, by Paula Cardona, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.