The Machado de Castro National Museum is a church art museum in Coimbra, Portugal, named after the well-known Portuguese sculptor Joaquim Machado de Castro.

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The name of the museum is a tribute by the city of Coimbra to its most famous son, Joaquim Machado de Castro, the most important exponent of 18th-century Portuguese sculpture. The former Bishop's Palace and Collections houses a beautiful 12th-century cloister and provides an ideal setting for housing one of Portugal's most complete art collections.

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Location: Coimbra (Almedina), Coimbra, Portugal

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