For the celebration of European Day of Prehistoric Rock Art, the Côa Museum is opening the exhibition *Poetics of Light –...
As an immense open-air gallery, the Côa Valley features more than a thousand outcrops with rock art, identified in over 80 different sites, predominantly from the Upper Paleolithic, some 30.000 years ago
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Scenes from the daily lives of Paleolithic Artists from the Côa Valley
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Secretary of State for Culture visits the Côa Museum
The Côa Museum welcomed the Secretary of State for Culture, Alberto Santos, on March 14. During this first official visit,...
The best images of 2024 by National Geographic
The photograph captured by archaeologist Mário Reis, a researcher for the LandCraft project funded by the Foundation for Science and...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Côa Parque Foundation wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May this season be filled with joy,...
Carmo Museum hosts exhibition ‘Por Este Côa Acima’ by the Côa Parque Foundation
The exhibition “Por Este Côa Acima” will be showcased at the Museu Arqueológico do Carmo in Lisbon to commemorate 30...
Public dissemination of Côa art
Today Côa celebrates an important date! On November 21, 1994, the first news story about the extraordinary find in the...
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A Leap in Time
Time is a dimension invented by humanity to explain a phenomenon of which we are merely spectators.
One Ursa Minor – Maria Sottomayor
One Ursa Minor One Ursa Minor brings together a collection of paintings and objects in which image, word and...
Poetics of Light – The Revelation of Colour
For the celebration of European Day of Prehistoric Rock Art, the Côa Museum is opening the exhibition *Poetics of Light –...
Parte do Chão
TEXT BY CARLOTA BÓIA NETO Between valleys and ridges that embrace the Côa River, time shapes the landscape. Its...
Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape
The Impacto Social Art Gallery, which is launching its first pilot event on 13 June 2026 with the aim of...
Estórias da Casa e do Plantio
Estórias da Casa e do Plantio Project by Patrícia Geraldes for public space intervention Curated by Eduarda Neves The project...
Museu Nacional Grão Vasco Tributo às Gravuras do Vale do Rio Côa
In 1995, Portugal experienced a defining moment in its cultural history. The discovery of the Côa Valley Rock Art –...
