ABSTRACT
The Serralves Foundation owns and manages the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, the largest cultural centre in the north of Portugal. Designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, Porto’s most renowned architect, the museum includes an auditorium, a library, a bookshop and leisure areas. The foundation is also owner of the Serralves Park, a twentieth century modernist park with architecturally designed gardens, and the Casa de Serralves, an art deco house designed by Cahrles Siclis and José Marques da Silva. Along with the many programmes aimed at promoting the park as an artistic place, there is a gardening workshop/school. The museum is the second largest (in terms of visitors) of Portugal, just behind the Coach Museum (Museu Nacional dos Coches) in Lisbon.
