Museu Arqueológico do Carmo
The Museu Arqueológico do Carmo is housed in the ruins of the Convento do Carmo, in Lisbon, and its museum life began in 1864. That year, the first president of the Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses, Joaquim Possidónio Narciso da Silva (1806–1896), founded the museum to protect national heritage that was being damaged after the extinction of the Religious Orders and the effects of the French invasions and the Liberal Wars. Possidónio da Silva gathered architectural and sculptural fragments, important funerary monuments, azulejo panels, heraldic stones, and other objects from different categories. From early on, the museum aimed to function as a “museu vivo,” and it still preserves a library connected to that mission. …
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