The oil magnate Gulbenkian’s lavish collection returns to its origins in Lisbon
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon had been closed for a year and a half to travel another 57 years into the past. From March 2025 until this past Saturday, the day it reopened to the public, the private foundation worked on renovating its interior spaces to restore them to the spirit of 1969, the year it opened. The artistic wonders, from Ancient Egypt to the 20th century, amassed by the man who at his death in 1955 was considered the richest person in the world are now again on display, bathed in a dim light, with some rooms carpeted in a greenish hue that links the interior of the br…
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Abrir la fuente originalThe Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon had been closed for a year and a half to travel another 57 years into the past. From March 2025 until this past Saturday, the day it reopened to the public, the private foundation worked on renovating its interior spaces to restore them to the spirit of 1969, the year it opened. The artistic wonders, from Ancient Egypt to the 20th century, amassed by the man who at his death in 1955 was considered the richest person in the world are now again on display, bathed in a dim light, with some rooms carpeted in a greenish hue that links the interior of the brutalist building to the grass of the courtyards around which the galleries are organized. Nature and culture fused in harmony, just as the Armenian-British oil magnate (1869–1955) imagined. Gulbenkian, who stopped in Lisbon en route to an intended exile in the United States during World War II, instead ended up settling in the city on the Tagus for the last 13 years of his life.
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