Located in the historic center of the city, the Lamego Museum was founded in 1917, in an 18th century building, which was an episcopal palace. It belongs to the restricted number of centuries-old museums, whose creation reflects the effects of the application of the Law of Separation from the State of Churches (1911), which succeeded the implantation of the Portuguese Republic.

With a truly eclectic collection, it has collections of painting, tapestry, furniture, jewelery, vestments and means of transport, which were part of the filling of the old palace, complemented, later, by a set of chapels covered in gilded wood, archaeological species, ceramics, engraving, drawing and photography.

The nucleus of Flemish tapestry, woven in Brussels, in the first half of the century. XVI, the panels that Vasco Fernandes (Grão Vasco) painted for the cathedral of Lamego, at the same time, the panels of tiles of the century. XVII and a medieval tomb ark, classified as National Treasures, are part of the most relevant set, in a collection that is chronologically more comprehensive, with examples dated between the century. I and the XX.

Diverse and plural, the collection allows a journey of discovery about the evolution of the city of Lamego and the men and women who inhabited it over the centuries.