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Museu Photographia Vincentes
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Casa Museu Frederico de Freitas
Museums
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Museu de Arte Sacra,
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A Cidade do Açúcar,
Funchal
Funchal's Religious Art
Museum is renowned for
its colourful 16th-century
Flemish paintings, but
also has many remarka-
ble polychrome wooden
statues
(see pp10-11)
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Adegas de São
Funchal
Devoted to the island's early
sugar trade, this museum
is also on the site of a
house where Christo-
pher Columbus stayed
for six days in 1498, dur-
ing his third voyage to
the New World.
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Praça
do Colombo 5 • Map P3 • 291
236 910 • 10am-12:30pm,
2-6pm Mon-Fri • Adm charge
Franciscan saints,
Museu de Arte Sacra
Francisco, Funchal
A guided visit to this
charming, cobblestoned vintage
Madeira wine lodge is a heady
experience involving all the
senses
(see pp12-13)
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Museu da Quinta das
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Museu Photographia
Vicentes, Funchal
Founded by Vincent Gomes da
Silva in 1852 (12 years after pho-
tography was invented), this pho-
tographic studio survives,
complete with cameras, sets and
costumes.
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Rua da Carreira 43 • Map
P3 • 291 225 050 • 10am-12:30pm, 2-
5pm Mon-Fri • Adm charge
Cruzes, Funchal
This is the house where Madei-
ra's first ruler lived when Madeira
was still young - the newest
addition to Portugal's growing
portfolio of overseas colonies at
the start of the great Age of Dis-
covery in the 15th century. Paint-
ings and sketches of the island's
major landmarks hang on the
walls of the Quinta's richly deco-
rated rooms
(see pp14-15)
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Museu Municipal e
Aquário, Funchal
This museum offers a darkened
aquarium downstairs, and a
study collection of stuffed fish,
birds and other Madeiran wildlife
upstairs.
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Rua da Mouraria 33 • Map
P2 • 291 229 761 • 10am-6pm Tue-Fri,
noon-6pm Sat-Sun • Adm charge
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Casa Museu Frederico de
Freitas, Funchal
Housed in a 19th-century mansion
packed with antiques and religious
paintings, this museum also has
an amusing collection of teapots
from all over the world. A new
wing is devoted to ceramic tiles,
Picnic
by T. da Anunciacao, Museu da Quinta
das Cruzes
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