This museum has an amazing collection from ancient Egypt and Greece, to Turkey (Ottoman Period) and on to European art from Rembrandt to the Impressionists, Louis XV and XVI furniture ending with a fabulous collection of Lalique who was a friend of Gulbenkian. Gulbenkian was an Armenian from Turkey, an oil magnate, who lived in Paris, but then took refuge in Lisbon during WWII. He gave his collection to Lisbon when he died.
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