Museum in Cascais – Casa das Historias Paula Rego

Opened in September 2009, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, is a museum with more than 700 works, including permanent and temporary exhibitions, of this acclaimed contemporary artist.

Paula Rego is considered one of the best living painters in Britain,
has works  in museums around the world like the MoMA in New York or the British Museum in London!

Did you Know ? In 1994, Sotheby’s sold her work “Baying” was sold for over 1 Million dollars!!!

The museum building, with 750m2, was designed by the winner the 2011 Pritzker Prize, architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
(OMG! You don’t know what is the Pritzker Prize ???
I help then, it’s the “equivalent” to the Nobel Prize of architecture, the architecture’s highest honor)

Details of Casa das Historias Paula Rego: here