Museum in Cascais – Casa das Historias Paula Rego

by Local Guide · Published 1 Fevereiro, 2014 · Updated 12 Julho, 2022

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 was considered one of the best living painters in Britain (sadly passed away in June 2022).
The Financial Times considered Paula Rego one of the most influential women of 2021! (check who were the other 24 Women mentioned: here)
Paula Rego has works in museums around the world like the MoMA in New York or the British Museum in London!
Why artist Paula Rego remains a master storyteller
(according to the Arts correspondent @ BBC News)

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)