The Museum, located in the old Episcopal Palace of Castelo Branco , was founded in 1910 by Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior, multiple personality interests in science and the arts, who distinguished himself especially as archaeologist.

The vast collection of the museum includes archaeological finds, tapestries of the sixteenth century and primitive Portuguese art. It keeps archaeological records from the Paleolitic to the middle ages, painting from sixteenth-century Portuguese school, tapestry, furniture of the old Episcopal Palace, armory, ethnography, religious art from the XVI to XVIII century, Portuguese contemporary art and the famous Bedspreads of Castelo Branco , including a nucleous that was part of the collection Ernesto Vilhena .

The building, built in 1596 by order of the Bishop of Guarda, D. Nuno de Noronha , initially served as a winter residence.

Later, on the eighteenth century , with the creation of the Bishopric of Castelo Branco, the building became to the Episcopal Palace, situation that lasted until 1880.

Attachments to the building, there are the gardens of the Bishop’s Palace , which represent the art of gardening on the Baroque period.

At the Museum, it works the Embroidery Regional Workshop School, which produces Bedspreads of Castelo Branco, for sale to the public.

The city of Castelo Branco it is famous for its linen bedspreads embroidered by silk, of Oriental inspiration, that the Museum has one of the biggest collections of the country.

Largo Dr. José Dias Lopes
6000-462
Castelo Branco
Telefone- 272 344 277
Fax- 272 347 880
E-Mail- mftpj@imc-ip.pt