Residencial Sete Cidades

Carlos Machado Museum

Founded in 1876 by Dr. Carlos Maria Gomes Machado, with the name “Museum of the Azores”, it opened its doors to the public on the 10th of June of 1880, in the then high school of Ponta Delgada, with Natural History collections of zoology, botany, geology and mineralogy.

In 1912 the importance of the museum was increased with the inauguration of the regional art and ethnography exposition.

With the acquisition of the old Santo André Monastery, the museum moved its treasures into this magnificent example of monastic architecture.

The museum also has collections of paintings, sculpture, jewellery, porcelain, toys and ethnography.
Rua João Moreira

Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo de Ponta Delgada

Public Library and Archives of Ponta Delgada

This public library and archives is considered to be one of the most important in the country for the wealth and diversity of the endowments and collections in its possession.

Amongst these, the endowments of José do Canto, Ernesto do Canto, Eugénio do Canto, the library and the assets of Teófilo Braga, the library of Antero de Quental and the memorabilia of Dr. José Bruno Carreiro are of great interest. The museum houses five incunabula and book collections dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, some of which came from convents, first editions and other valuable editions.

This extense patrimony is enriched with the Camões collection, the manuscripts of 
Gaspar Frutuoso’s “Saudades da Terra”, Frei Diogo das Chagas’s “Espelho Cristalino” and the “Crónicas da Província de São João Evangelista”.