Exhibition
Curated by Mathieu Copeland, this exhibition brings together sixteen dreams interpreted as songs, following the forms of mandalas.
Exhibition
Curated by Mathieu Copeland, this exhibition brings together sixteen dreams interpreted as songs, following the forms of mandalas.
Free Exhibition
An exhibition of posters documenting the breadth and diversity of the Gulbenkian Foundation's programming over its 70 years.
Event inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, inviting participants on an imaginary journey guided by a magic carpet.
Other
An exhibition of sculptural drawing by Diogo Pimentão, who redefines the practice of drawing, presenting works resulting from a performative action with dancer Emmanuel Eggermont at CAM.
Other
Rosa Barba presents her first major exhibition in Portugal, with a site-specific and temporal narrative that expands on the conceptual themes of her work.
The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2026 award ceremony will be broadcast live.
Morning 1 event
An informal conversation with the winner and jury of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity 2026, an opportunity to meet the laureate.
Evening 2 events
A dinner by chef David Jesus in which a garden reveals unexpected ingredients and the plant world is transformed into high gastronomy.
Free Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra, conducted by Andrej Power, performs works by Mozart, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky in a string concert.
Live music
Screening of the documentary 'Summer of Soul' (2021), which revisits the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and the celebration of African-American music.
Inês Zenha and Teresa Castro discuss the humblest of plants—ruderal species—in a conversation that explores their overlooked value.
Live music
Prince's iconic film debut, "Purple Rain," is screened—a musical masterpiece that won an Oscar for Best Original Song Score.
Evening 1 event
A visit that reveals how the Museum recovered the spirit of its original project, bringing together heritage, architecture and innovation.
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Exhibition
This visit to the exhibition Gulbenkian, 70 Years in Posters explores posters of activities programmed or supported by different services of the Foundation over its 70 years of existence.
Exhibition
Exhibition bringing together over fifty artists from the CAM Collection, exploring the notion of place as a conceptual axis.
Attend an exclusive rehearsal for the preparation of Debussy's La Damoiselle élue and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.
Evening 1 event
A guided tour through the Gulbenkian Garden exploring the surprising dialogue between botany, classical literature (Ovid) and the philosophy of nature (Goethe) on metamorphoses.
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Workshops & talks
In this visit-workshop, participants explore a sensory studio with their whole body and create a sculptural object inspired by works from the Gulbenkian Museum collection.
Other
A visit to revisit the CAM building and learn about its transformation.
Family friendly Other
A visit for primary school children to explore the sounds of Lisbon's trees using a tree-box.
Family friendly Live music
In the ABC of Music, each letter gains sound, rhythm and life, in an A-to-Z journey through composers, instruments and melodies that turn music into words, gestures and little sound stories.
Live music
A concert where instruments bring to life the sounds of birds, insects and other creatures in a true musical animalarium.
A game-like visit that promotes learning Portuguese as a non-native language in a museum context.
Family friendly Dance
This visit turns into a choreography: a short dance you can take back to school and repeat as many times as you like.
A visit to the Gulbenkian Museum that highlights the importance of past, present and future choices for a more sustainable society.
Exhibition
A guided tour highlighting the key pieces of the Gulbenkian Museum, from Ancient Egypt to Persia and Japan, ending with European Art.
Other
An outdoor class that questions the limits of the classroom and proposes learning geometry and history through the elements of the garden.
Live music
This session draws on the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach to bring together music, senses and movement in a sensory artistic experience.
Family friendly Other
A workshop-visit for primary school children to discover the fauna, flora and biodiversity of the Gulbenkian Garden.
Exhibition
Based on the Centro de Arte Moderna collection, the education team designs specific, transdisciplinary sessions tailored to the chosen theme and grounded in the artistic reference.
A multi-session visit exploring the life of Calouste and his collection, which spans different cultures and times.
Live music
In this musical visit, we discover Vivaldi's and Piazzolla's Four Seasons through the five senses.
Exhibition
A visit to the Gulbenkian Museum that addresses media literacy, questioning what we think we know about what was written for posterity.
A workshop for students with specific educational needs, offering a sensory journey through the Gulbenkian Garden.
This visit reinforces school curriculum content by crossing art and mathematics at the Modern Art Centre.
Family friendly Exhibition
A visit for several school cycles that explores the relationship between mathematics and art through the works of the Gulbenkian Museum.
Exhibition
What happens when we gather in a circle in the Museum? This visit-workshop uses group portraits to explore the idea of being together.
In this guided tour, participants explore various spaces of the Gulbenkian Building, including areas normally closed to the public.
Informal encounters with musicians and conductors of the Gulbenkian Orchestra or guests, where students can watch part of the rehearsals.
Live music
In these visits, designed preferably for music students, participants can attend a rehearsal of the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Exhibition
The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through hybrid bodies and beings, reservoirs, drainage and runoff systems.
Family friendly Live music
A musical visit for preschoolers that encourages learning about musical instruments, the sounds of nature and the voice.
Family friendly Other
An activity that starts from observation to find the common element among works in the CAM collection.
Family friendly Live music
A musical visit designed for preschool children, inviting them to observe the Museum's works through sound and the senses.
Dance
Three different visits exploring changing times through the works of the Gulbenkian Museum, from Antiquity to the 19th century.
Family friendly Exhibition
A tour that adapts the eponymous game to the exhibition space, combining interpretation questions with sensory and creative exploration activities.
Live music
A pedagogical visit that answers questions through the demonstration and deconstruction of Gulbenkian Música's educational projects.
This visit proposes revisiting episodes of history through diverse — and even conflicting — readings of the same moments.
A pedagogical visit to the Gulbenkian Garden that answers questions through demonstration and deconstruction of our educational projects.
An opportunity to discover stories, details and architectural features of the Gulbenkian Garden and Building.
Family friendly Other
This game challenges participants to discover 50 species of natural elements in the Garden and to mark with a cross what they manage to find.
In this workshop, participants sharpen their senses to discover the Garden in a more complete way and build a sensory map of the place, inspired by Alberto Caeiro.
Family friendly Exhibition
In this game-like visit, sound is the starting point for a close observation of the works on display.
Exhibition
In this visit-workshop, participants explore the theme of collecting in an art exhibition, discovering how the things we keep gain meaning and tell stories.
Other
A visit that offers a quick look at modernism, the avant-gardes and the very idea of modernity.
Exhibition
A pedagogical visit that answers questions through the demonstration and deconstruction of the museum's educational projects.
Party
A multisensory visit adapted to the needs of people with memory loss, a dementia diagnosis, and their caregivers.
A visit exploring the biography, paths, inspirations, ideas, techniques and works of artist Inês Zenha through her forgotten objects.
Family friendly Other
A game-like visit to discover the stories and memories of the objects collected by Gulbenkian.
Other
In this guided tour for private groups, visitors get to know the new building and tour the CAM Collection, with a focus on the key works of this collection.
Exhibition
A guided tour of the headquarters, Museum, and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
This tour through areas of the building reveals the secrets of a unique and inspiring building, symbol of an idea of possible utopia.
Other
This visit explores the Gulbenkian Garden and its design, revealing the symbiotic relationship between the garden and the Foundation's buildings and how this 20th-century landscape architecture masterpiece was realised.
A visit to the Gulbenkian Garden adapted for people with memory loss or dementia and their caregivers, evoking the plants of childhood.
Family friendly Live music
A musical visit that combines space exploration and music, ending its mission on planet Earth with out-of-this-world sounds.
Exhibition
A visit that invites you to think and philosophize, like a banquet served hot and in a group, with a menu for all tastes.
Other
A journey to China through pieces from Calouste Gulbenkian's collection, exploring the main symbols of the Middle Kingdom and the ancient stories and traditions they tell.
Exhibition
A guided visit that challenges perception and encourages dialogue and discussion around the works of the Gulbenkian Museum.
Live music
Hannu Lintu conducts Stravinsky's monumental opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex, inspired by Sophocles' tragedy.
Live music
A musical workshop for sensory, sound and creative exploration, based on exploring various musical instruments.
Live music
A concert that turns listening into discovery, exploring music, nature and our place in an ever-changing soundscape from the other side of the window.
Family friendly Live music
In this dynamic and engaging workshop, children are invited to dive into the world of music through free experimentation and collective creation.
Family friendly Exhibition
A game-visit through photography, video, painting, sculpture and installation, always with suitcase in hand and a special passport.
A reflection on identity: like a puzzle, we are made of many pieces that together build who we are.
This visit examines the Gulbenkian Garden and its design, a garden conceived in a symbiotic relationship with the Foundation's buildings.
Family friendly Family
A gastronomic tour through the Gulbenkian collection, full of ingredients for a mouth-watering menu.
Exhibition
In this workshop, participants are challenged to (de)construct their multiple portraits, based on works of Portuguese modernism from the CAM collection.
Family friendly Family
In this workshop, preschool children become explorers, discovering and observing life in the Gulbenkian Garden.
Live music
This activity invites a sensory experience through the exhibition, where art is not only seen but felt and explored through sound, music and dance.
Exhibition
A guided tour of the immersive exhibition by artist Inês Zenha, featuring painting, sculpture, and installation.
Family friendly Live music
In this visit-workshop, preschool and primary school students create sound materials through a multisensory exploration of the Gulbenkian Garden.
A guided visit to this landmark project in landscape architecture in Portugal.
Other
A multisensory tour with audio description to get to know the Gulbenkian Garden up close.
Family friendly Other
A game-visit for the 2nd cycle that explores the biodiversity of the Gulbenkian Garden and the role of humans in protecting nature.
Family friendly Exhibition
A guided tour of the Gulbenkian Museum for 2nd cycle students, journeying through different centuries and cultures.
Family friendly Exhibition
A game-like tour that takes participants on a journey through France, Greece, Turkey and China, discovering different cultures through the artworks purchased by Calouste Gulbenkian.
A guided tour for private groups of the Gulbenkian Foundation's Building and Garden, a National Monument, highlighting the relationship between architecture and garden.
In this guided tour, discover the Gulbenkian Foundation's Building and Garden, highlighting the relationship between architecture and the garden.
Other
In this visit, drawing helps us understand the possibilities that the pencil line offered artists throughout the ages.
Live music
Visits that give students direct contact with rehearsals, backstage, concerts, musicians, conductors and guests of the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Exhibition
A customized visit, upon request, for students of various levels to the Gulbenkian Museum collection.
A guided tour of the exhibition Xerazade. The Interminable Collection of CAM, which presents the collection in a surprising, non-chronological way, creating dialogues and relationships between authors and works from different styles and periods.
Live music
The Metropolitan Opera of New York presents Mozart's Così fan tutte in a vibrant production set in 1950s Coney Island.
Live music
Yeol Eum Son performs Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, in a program that includes a premiere by Carlos Caires.
Afternoon 1 event
In this guided tour with Ivo Meco, we'll discover botanical curiosities in the Garden.
Evening 1 event
Live music
South Korean duo Dal:um reinvents traditional instruments gayageum and geomungo in a fusion of contemporary music and Asian tradition.
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Family friendly Family
Art Cart is a workshop that invites families with children aged six and up to do creative activities together.
Workshops & talks
In this drawing workshop, we'll get to know and see with fresh eyes some works from the Gulbenkian Museum, in the company of Catarina Dias.
In this visit, we explore the biography, paths, inspirations, ideas, techniques and works of artist Inês Zenha through her forgotten objects.
A guided tour of a selection from the CAM collection, arranged in fourteen thematic clusters inspired by the fictional device of the thousand-year-old story of 'One Thousand and One Nights'.
Morning 1 event
6–12 Family friendly Family
In this activity, families learn to make ink from the garden's oak galls and draw what they like most about the space. Aimed at children aged 6 to 12.
Evening 1 event
Live music
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana presents a Bach recital, highlighting her virtuosity and interpretive depth.
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Free Family friendly Family
A monthly open-access workshop for families where experimentation is the watchword.
Afternoon 1 event
Perpetual is an event that invites us to explore places never before imagined.
Evening 1 event
Live music
The solists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert, highlighting the technical and artistic quality of the instrumentalists.
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Exhibition
In this visit, we question what we understand by art, artist and creation, starting from the exhibition 'Painting is Easy. Do It Yourself!'.
In this guided tour of the exhibition 'Painting is Easy. Do It Yourself!', we are invited to question what art is, who makes it and how it is produced, following the clues of an exhibition that turns the visitor into a participant.
Exhibition
This tour of the exhibition uses different artists and a kind of recipe book to approach the show in a very participatory and creative way.
Workshops & talks
In this course, participants will discover some of the most notable ceramic works from the Gulbenkian Collection.
Workshops & talks
Drawing course led by artist Catarina Dias, where drawing is explored as a process of discovery.
Other
Event of the category 'other' titled 'Fio de voz'.
Exhibition
A series of lunchtime visits proposing an in-depth observation of a single work of art.
Afternoon 1 event
Exhibition addressing the revolution of the gaze on 19th-century French landscape, from outdoor painting to Impressionism.
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Live music
Paweł Kapuła conducts the Gulbenkian Orchestra in a performance of Brahms' luminous Symphony No. 2.
Afternoon 1 event
Exhibition
In this themed visit, gemologist Rui Galopim de Carvalho guides participants through the Gulbenkian Museum's painting collection, highlighting the jewels and gems depicted in the works.
Evening 1 event
Live music
A Met Opera Live in HD presentation of Verdi's Macbeth, in a powerful production conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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Exhibition
In this workshop led by artists Rita Cachão and Tiago de Sá, participants are introduced to screen printing using the Gulbenkian Museum collection.
Exhibition
Immersive exhibition by artist Inês Zenha, featuring painting, sculpture and installation.
Evening 1 event
Live music
The Trio Amatis and Thomas Quasthoff present Humanity in War, a concert that blends music and letters from World War I in a reflection on humanity and peace.
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6+ Family friendly Exhibition
The Gulbenkian Museum opens its Art Studio to families with children aged 6 and up, inviting them to explore creative processes together.
Other
This visit introduces the bird species that make up the avifauna of the Foundation's Garden, with a focus on their songs.
Live music
Concert by the Gulbenkian Choir conducted by Martina Batič, featuring motets by Bach and works by Portuguese composers, including the premiere of Andreia Pinto Correia.
Live music
Evgeny Kissin and András Schiff perform a four-hand and two-piano recital featuring works by Mozart, Schumann, Smetana, and Dvořák.
Afternoon 1 event
This visit decodes the symbiotic relationship between architecture and landscape architecture in the Gulbenkian Building and Garden, an innovative project taken to its highest expression.
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A performance that starts from the image of a casino machine to build a space where rules are constantly changing.
Afternoon 1 event
In this visit, curator Ana Maria Campino discusses the history of the display cases dedicated to the Museum's European books and graphic documents, works that periodically return to storage for conservation reasons.
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Exhibition
Recalling the Gulbenkian Itinerant Libraries, CAM and the Gulbenkian Museum launch a new cycle focused on the practice of democracy and active citizenship.
Live music
The Sunday Concerts cycle kicks off with a program featuring works by Copland, Bernstein, Arturo Márquez, and Gabriela Ortiz.
Workshops & talks
A course based on the Gulbenkian Música 25/26 season, designed to improve understanding and enjoyment of the music presented throughout the season.
In this visit, we talk with the gardener responsible for the challenge of keeping the Gulbenkian Garden a paradise for everyone.
Exhibition
In this visit, architect Teresa Nunes da Ponte guides us through the intervention that combined the technical and museographic updating of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum.
Live music
Cellist Maximilian Hornung performs Dvořák's Cello Concerto with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Nuno Coelho.
In the context of the MAR+ project, this conversation explores different perspectives on contemporary dance and its creative processes.
Afternoon 1 event
In this visit, we discover representations of landscape along a route that crosses several galleries of the Museum.
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A guided tour that ironically and provocatively questions what art is, who produces it and for whom it is made, inviting visitors to follow the instructions of an unexpected 'do it yourself'.
Live music
A visit with a musical experience at the Centro de Arte Moderna designed for people living with dementia and their caregivers.
Evening 1 event
Live music
The Van Kuijk Quartet returns to Gulbenkian Music with a programme dedicated to great chamber music.
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A course on integrating generative AI into research practice in an informed, ethical and productive way, focused on drafting funding proposals.
Live music
Elina Vähälä performs Olli Mustonen's Violin Concerto No. 2 in a program that includes Stravinsky's Petrouchka.
Afternoon 1 event
In this visit, you will explore several spaces, including areas normally closed to the public, and discover how architecture and nature are in permanent dialogue in this singular building.
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Exhibition
In this exhibition, the artworks make us think about the processes artists use to create their works.
Exhibition
In this guided tour of the exhibition 'Lugares que se desenham', we start from the notion of place to explore different ways of creating, delimiting, inhabiting and transforming space through art.
Exhibition
The exhibition explores the notion of place as a conceptual axis, guiding the relationships and tensions suggested by the arrangement and progression of the works.
In this workshop, participants will learn more about tits and build wooden nest boxes for them to use in the next breeding season.
A visit that proposes drawing places based on the CAM Collection.
This visit offers a panoramic tour of the major questions and challenges of modern and contemporary art.
Dance
A visit that explores movement, dance, and bodily expression as tools for interpreting artworks.
Other
A visit that combines a tour of selected works with simple drawing exercises.
Other
A visit that, based on a selection of works from CAM, invites students to discuss, observe, and make decisions about looking and perception.
The new Botanical Academy will be a space dedicated to the discovery and study of the plants that fill the Gulbenkian Garden with life.
Live music
During a general rehearsal of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir, participants are invited to sketch while listening to music, bringing drawing and music together.
David Nirenberg reflects on institutions as spaces of intellectual experimentation and dialogue between fields of knowledge.
Evening 1 event
Historian and medievalist David Nirenberg joins a public conversation about the role of the humanities in contemporary society.
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Live music
Hannu Lintu conducts works by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn inspired by spirituality and German Romanticism.
Afternoon 1 event
In this tour, curator André Afonso presents some of the 18th- and 19th-century French goldsmith masterpieces that fascinated Calouste Gulbenkian.
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Theatre
Choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza presents Shikama, a new piece created in collaboration with Inés Sybille Vooduness and Matthew Jamal.
Family friendly Family
In this workshop in the Gulbenkian Garden, families will build looms using plant materials.
Other
Idio Chichava presents Dzudza, a performance inspired by the atmosphere of the Xiquelene Market on the outskirts of Maputo.
The winner of the second edition of the Salavisa European Dance Award (SEDA) will be announced on November 17 in a ceremony at the Grande Auditório.
Family friendly Live music
A Gulbenkian Orchestra school concert that presents the orchestra in a fun and different way, designed to spark interest and enjoyment of music.
Live music
A live colloquium concert with no additional details provided.
Morning 2 events
Exhibition
In the Gulbenkian Garden, this experience teaches you to observe nature, discover the invisible and turn small details into surprising images using your mobile phone.
Workshops & talks
Following the success of the first workshop, this activity returns to tufting, a contemporary textile creation technique, with artist Francisco Couto.
Afternoon 1 event
Live music
Birds that sing, insects that buzz and creatures that take shape through instruments: a concert that invites audiences into the Musical Bestiary.
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Exhibition
This exhibition brings forth an 'imaginary collection' woven together by material, formal and conceptual affinities.
A performance that brings together two artists in a reunion with surrealism, across three sessions that explore the ridiculous and break with conventions.
Live music
This Sunday Concert celebrates music inspired by great narratives, with works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Humperdinck.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra is composed of instrumentalists of high technical and artistic quality.
Afternoon 1 event
Exhibition
In this guided tour, discover the works of Carpeaux and Rodin and the stories, details and meanings hidden behind their sculptures.
Evening 1 event
Live music
The ensemble Apollo’s Fire and soprano Jeanine De Bique explore the musical ties between Europe and the Caribbean in the 18th century.
Afternoon 1 event
Exhibition
Marking International Day of Islamic Art, this tour explores the museum's gallery dedicated to Islamic cultures to discover the geometries underlying the design of some of its works.
Evening 1 event
Live music
Danças Ocultas presents Flúmen, a performance blending concertinas, contemporary music and nature-inspired soundscapes.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra performs works by Alban Berg, Schubert, Mahler and Dobrinka Tabakova in a program dedicated to European Romanticism and Modernism.
Afternoon 1 event
Live music
The Met Opera Live in HD presents Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saëns, in a production starring Aigul Akhmetshina and Clay Hilley.
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Dance
This tour focuses on movement, dance and bodily expression as tools for reading and interpreting artistic objects.
Morning 1 event
An exhibition bringing poetry and art together in the gallery, featuring Alice Neto de Sousa.
Evening 1 event
Live music
Pianist Seong-Jin Cho presents a recital marked by virtuosity, lyricism and interpretive maturity.
Live music
Anika Vavić performs Shchedrin's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu.
Live music
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino presents "Il Mito", a show that reinvents the Italian tradition of pizzica in contemporary language.
Live music
Concert by the soloists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, composed of highly skilled instrumentalists.
Live music
Martina Batič leads the Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra in an emotional Christmas concert dedicated to beauty, sharing, and spirituality.
Family friendly Dance
Alexandra Dariescu reinvents The Nutcracker with piano, dance and digital animation in a multi-sensory experience inspired by Tchaikovsky.
Over six sessions, this course explores exceptional objects—true masterpieces designed to give everyday spaces meaning, beauty and craftsmanship.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra celebrates the New Year with soprano Erin Morley and conductor Domingo Hindoyan.
Live music
Les Vents Français and pianist Éric Le Sage present a recital dedicated to the great repertoire for wind instruments.
The Gulbenkian Orchestra performs John Williams' iconic music from the Indiana Jones films.
Live music
A concert that takes us on an interplanetary space-and-music exploration of Gustav Holst's suite 'The Planets'.
Live music
A concert that takes us on an interplanetary space-and-music exploration of Gustav Holst's suite 'The Planets'.
Workshops & talks
In this five-session course, Alexandre Delgado contextualises and analyses in detail Beethoven's revolutionary symphonies, composed between 1800 and 1824.
Afternoon 1 event
In this visit, we talk with the gardener responsible for the challenge of keeping the Gulbenkian Garden a paradise for everyone.
Evening 1 event
Live music
Martina Batič conducts the Gulbenkian Choir in an a cappella program dedicated to Italian and Portuguese music, from Monteverdi to Eurico Carrapatoso.
Workshops & talks
A course reflecting on the landscape as a space of memory, identity, and collective project, viewing landscape heritage as a living heritage and a responsibility toward the future.
Live music
Sergei Babayan performs Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.
Morning 1 event
Other
Workshop to discover the principles of natural cosmetics, with direct contact with plant-based raw materials and plants traditionally used in body care.
Afternoon 1 event
Other
Practical workshop that follows the stages of handmade soap making, reflecting on consumption habits, waste reduction, and sustainable alternatives.
Evening 1 event
Live music
Pianist Daniil Trifonov performs a recital marked by virtuosity, imagination, and emotional intensity.
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Family friendly Dance
A family visit that unravels the riddles of the Tapestries, spins dances, and creates soundscapes together.
Live music
The orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro and cellist Anastasia Kobekina perform a concert dedicated to Baroque and Classical repertoire.
Live music
Members of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, known for their high technical and artistic quality, perform as soloists.
Afternoon 1 event
Exhibition
A visit that looks at ivory sculptures, medieval illuminated manuscripts, and Renaissance paintings from the 13th to the 16th centuries, exploring the attributes, symbols, and narratives associated with the Virgin.
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Family friendly Literature
Tales that go in and out of books and life, featuring daring, clever, fearless, capricious, and also fearsome girls.
A laboratory of imagination for young people aged 18–25, exploring how we dream and imagine in uncertain times over 15 weeks, guided by a guest artist.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra performs Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 and Joly Braga Santos' Symphony No. 4.
Afternoon 2 events
In this event, artist Leonor Nazaré, together with Sérgio Mah, proposes an underground journey through bodily systems and human infrastructures, where water, bodily fluids, and clay become the guiding threads of a poetic and political transformation.
A guided visit offering the chance to learn about the project from the artist and curators themselves, diving into murky waters.
Evening 1 event
Live music
The Met Opera Live in HD presents Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, starring Sondra Radvanovsky.
Live music
The Sonico ensemble celebrates Eduardo Rovira's centenary with a concert dedicated to contemporary tango.
Live music
Works by Liszt and Berlioz inspired by literature take center stage in a concert dedicated to Dante and Théophile Gautier.
Live music
Marie-Ange Nguci presents a piano recital spanning Baroque, Romantic, and contemporary repertoires.
Live music
Concert by the soloists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, featuring highly skilled instrumentalists.
Live music
A narrated concert that brings the audience closer to Beethoven's repertoire, with musical examples and a conductor leading the way.
Live music
Javier Perianes, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Tabea Zimmermann perform Brahms and Schumann in a chamber music recital.
Family friendly Live music
A concert that turns the alphabet into a musical story, where letters come to life through notes and imagination, in a creative adventure from A to Z.
Other
A guided tour led by one of the project's architects to rediscover the CAM building and learn about its recent transformation.
Exhibition
Poetry workshops led by established poets, exploring spoken and written word through artworks at CAM, ending with surprise readings beside the pieces.
Family friendly Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra presents works by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and Maria Theresia von Paradis in a family concert.
Live music
A recital by Tamara Stefanovich and baritone Matthias Goerne dedicated to contemporary repertoire and lieder.
Live music
Inmo Yang performs Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
A guided tour of the Gulbenkian Garden focusing on photosynthesis, plant reproduction, adaptations, and nomenclature of the plant kingdom.
Exhibition
A workshop at Gulbenkian Garden where participants print plant photographs using phytochemical properties.
A cyanotype workshop where students create small botanical albums of blue images.
Workshops & talks
A series of lectures and conversations that treats the Gulbenkian Garden not as a backdrop but as an interlocutor.
Live music
The Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir perform Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, one of the most striking choral works inspired by peace.
Afternoon 2 events
A visit that starts from the Coromandel screen and other pieces in the Calouste Gulbenkian collection to explore the meaning of the Chinese Zhuazhou tradition, still practised in several regions of East Asia.
Other
An activity to explore soundscapes and discover six city trees through listening, contemplation and imagination.
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A tale about determination, courage, and believing in one's dreams, inspired by the story of Judith Heumann.
Live music
Concert featuring soloists from the Gulbenkian Orchestra, composed of instrumentalists of high technical and artistic quality.
Live music
Lucas and Arthur Jussen perform Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu.
Afternoon 3 events
Live music
Petar Pejčić performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
A guided tour of one of the most emblematic modernist gardens, to discover how subtle geometry mimics nature and celebrates the Mediterranean landscape.
Live music
Elionor Martínez performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Evening 1 event
Live music
Quarteto Javus performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Morning 1 event
Other
In this workshop we will make wild seed bombs to help spring arrive in all its splendor.
Afternoon 2 events
Live music
Ava Bahari performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Live music
Trio Amelio performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, during a musically intense day.
Evening 1 event
Live music
Camila Mandillo performs as part of the Rising Stars cycle at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, during a musically intense day.
Live music
Grigory Sokolov returns to Gulbenkian Música for a piano recital dedicated to the great classical repertoire.
Live music
Johan Dalene performs Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto in a program that includes Sibelius's Symphony No. 7.
Other
A visit to discover the Gulbenkian Garden as a place of diversity, designed in the image of the landscape and recreating natural ecosystems.
Live music
Met Opera Live in HD presents Silent Night, by Kevin Puts, an opera inspired by the Christmas truce of World War I.
Live music
Martina Batič conducts Bach's monumental St Matthew Passion with the Gulbenkian Choir and Orchestra.
Live music
Concert uniting European and Middle Eastern musicians in a dialogue between cultures and musical traditions.
Other
In this activity led by the Inovlabs team, participants learn to use sensors and interpret the digital data they provide about the garden's ecosystem.
An activity to discover the importance of water, the life of ecosystems and food chains, showing how everything in nature is infinitely connected.
In this session, the team behind the eMOTIONAL Garden project explains the influence of urban space on mental health and presents the theoretical foundations of the regenerative space concept.
Live music
Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as Manon in a new production by the Metropolitan Opera.
Live music
Piano recital by Bertrand Chamayou dedicated to Ravel, Liszt, Schumann, Fauré and György Kurtág.
Live music
Truls Mørk performs Schumann's Cello Concerto with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu.
Live music
Concert with soloists from the Gulbenkian Orchestra, musicians of high technical and artistic quality.
Live music
Violin and piano recital with Beethoven sonatas performed by Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace.
Live music
Concert by Ensemble Sepidar dedicated to the tradition of Persian classical music and the dastgāh system.
Live music
Chamber music recital with works by Beethoven, Rachmaninov, and Boulanger performed by Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Benjamin Grosvenor.
Workshops & talks
In this writing workshop with Maria Giulia Pinheiro, participants write the way children play, giving all their attention and energy to a playful challenge or a deliberately useless occupation.
Live music
Sunday concert featuring works by Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, and other Nordic composers on a musical journey to Scandinavia.
Live music
Martina Batič conducts the Gulbenkian Choir in a programme devoted to North American choral music, from Bernstein to Randall Thompson.
Live music
Alexander Gavrylyuk performs Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Live music
The Met Opera Live in HD presents Verdi's Otello in a production starring Brian Jagde and Ailyn Pérez.
Live music
Igor Levit gives a recital devoted to Beethoven's sonatas and the creative world of the German composer.
Live music
Christina Nilsson performs Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs with the Gulbenkian Orchestra conducted by Joshua Weilerstein.
Live music
Pianist Bruce Liu performs a recital featuring works by Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Ligeti, and Mompou.
Live music
The Participatory Concerts return with John Adams's 'El Niño,' conducted by Joana Carneiro.
Live music
The Belcea Quartet performs Beethoven quartets in a recital dedicated to the intimate world of the German composer.
Live music
A narrated concert with musical examples designed to bring the audience closer to the chosen repertoire, culminating in the conductor's grand entrance.
Live music
The concert Music and Nature explores the inspiration of the natural world in works by Mendelssohn, Dvořák and Ester Mägi.
Live music
The soloists of the Gulbenkian Orchestra present a concert with instrumentalists of great technical and artistic quality.
Live music
Clara-Jumi Kang presents a violin recital with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, marked by virtuosity and romantic repertoire.
Live music
Kiya Tabassian and Ghalia Benali present a concert inspired by the Sufi poetry of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, titled Constantinople.
Live music
Sebastian Fagerlund premieres The Strangest Sea in a program that includes the last symphony of Shostakovich.
Live music
Víkingur Ólafsson presents a piano recital dedicated to Bach, Debussy, Rameau and Philip Glass.
Live music
Met Opera Live in HD presents Wagner's Parsifal, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with a stellar cast including Piotr Beczała, Elīna Garanča, and Peter Mattei.