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The story of another summer hidden in an art gallery, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is one of my favorite art galleries in Lisbon. I like to find a corner here to meditate, tai chi, read a book, or have a cup of coffee.

In the European summer, as soon as the sun comes out, people grow on the grass, and in Lisbon, there are birds, and they grow comfortably together in the beautiful gardens of the art museum.

Built in the late 60s as the project of landscape architects Antonio Viana Barreto and Goncalo Ribeiro Telles, this beautiful garden is one of the most iconic modern gardens in Portugal and an example of Portuguese landscape architecture.

The gallery is built around two interior gardens, where art, architecture, and landscape blend in a blend of light and shadow. I was supposed to be here for an hour or two, but then I was here all day. Every corner, the shade is like a scene in a movie, full of vitality, so beautiful! Can I grow up here too?!

While the building is modest and understated, the garden is simple yet wild, and over the years Gulbenkian Gardens has been working to make gardens, parks and land more friendly to wildlife.

The garden is heavily vegetated and is said to be home to as many as 230 species of plants and 43 species of birds, making the whole garden vibrant. The forest rim, the path and the conversation of the Mediterranean sun fill the place with natural energy.

The museum's collection of more than 6,000 works covers ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, Rome, East Asia, the Islamic world and Europe, as well as works by Rembrandt, Monet, Rubens and Renoir.

There are many types of exhibits involved: sculptures, paintings, gold coins, porcelain, furniture, carpets, tapestries, gold and silver, tiles, clocks... This art student is quite amazing to see, it is also the last trip before leaving Lisbon, and the ticket is well worth it.

What I like most is the collection of Art Nouveau jewelry, exquisite. It happens that there is a special exhibition of Alvaro Siza, and a large number of manuscripts can be read at the scene, and each draft records the thinking vein of his creative process.

What struck me was the Rembrandt Athena, which I had used for a long time many years ago, but I never knew it was Rembrandt, let alone in Lisbon, in this museum that blends brutalism and Japanese.

Another surprise is a jewelry exhibition, be sure to check out this exquisite exhibition, in which the dragonfly fairy (my own translation) is so beautiful that I stopped to look at it for a long time.

The Google navigation position here is shifted to the small park behind the art museum, but you can see the museum itself, and you can see the entrance by circling around the exit of the small park. The entrance is not obvious, and the glass door is bold. The cafe is also open.

This is probably the meaning of the existence of travel and museums, every travel, especially a free person to go through the streets, always can find those unique memories of their own anchorage, when a person's memories are rich enough to penetrate like a stream into the gap between reality and history, how can they feel lonely, and even feel that others outside themselves are obstructing the flow of rocks.

If you are also in Lisbon or coming, stay here for a day!