MUSEU ARQUEOLOGICO DA SOOCIEDADE MARTINS SARMENTO
(ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF MARTINS SARMENTO SOCIETY)
The Sociedade Martins Sarmento is a nonprofit private
cultural institution which was founded in 1881 in honour of Francisco Martins
Sarmento a Guimaraes born archeologist.
ts headquarters, a strike building, in
neoclassic style, designed by architect Marques da Silva, houses the oldest
Portuguese Archaeological Museum and a
magnificent Public Library endowed with a remarkable section of books about
Guimaraes.
The Museu Arqueologico da Sociedade Martins Sarmento , one of the
noted spaces of the history of archaeology in Portugal, was founded in 1885,
and its collections include Castro and Roman materials , resulting from the
excavations held in the region, especially those that took place in Citania de
Briteiros.
The museum has been , since 1888, operating in the cloister
of the former Conventode S. Domingos.The
museum hold important archaeological , numismatic, ethnographic and
contemporary art collections. In 2003, the Sociedade Martins Sarmento
inaugurated,in Briteiros, the museum of Castro culture,Museu da Cultura
Castreja. In this museum one can find part of the archaeological finds from
Citania de Briteiros ,Castro de Sabroso and from other catrejo sites from the
region.
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