Aveiro Museum/Santa Joana

Ex-libris cultural of the city of Aveiro, Aveiro Museum - Saint Joan, has been installed since 1911 in the former Convent of Jesus of the female Dominican Order.

This convent, one of the oldest in Aveiro, dates back to second half of the 15th century.

A Princess D. Joana, daughter of Afonso V, entered this house in 1472 and here led a life of holiness, which led to her beatification in 1693.

As museum collections integrate painting, sculpture, carving, tilework, goldsmithing, furniture and vestments, predominantly of sacred art.

Among the important works, it is worth mentioning the Gothic tomb of the knight D. João de Albuquerque, lord of Angeja, the sanctuary room of Princess Saint Joana (whose set of paintings is integrated into a profuse gilded carving covering), Holy Family, by Machado de Castro, or the portrait of Princess Saint Joan(15th century).