Saturday, 25 February 2012

Serralves Museum, Porto

Serralves Museum displays cutting-edge international contemporary art in a striking minimalist building, opened in 1999. There is no permanent collection on display, temporary exhibitions take up the entire space. At the moment there is a Thomas Struth photography exhibiton which was a bit of a shame as, much as I like his photographs, I saw many of them recently at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. 

We spent more time in the grounds which surround the museum and contain formal gardens and sculptures and also the Casa de Serralves, a lovely pink Art Deco house which is only let down by a complete lack of explanation of how the inside of the building would have looked in its heyday, some reproduction furniture or even a leaflet would've been good.


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