The Paula Rego Museum (formally known as the "House of Stories Paula Rego") was built as a home to an extensive collection of works by Paula Rego and her late husband Victor Willig. Rego herself selected Eduardo Souto de Moura as the architect of the project. The museum, which opened in 2009, is located in the seaside town of Cascais, about an hour by commuter train from Lisbon. Detail of the pyramid-shaped ceiling in the cafeteria.‹›
Casa das Histórias Paula Rego

Eduardo Souto de Moura

Interior · Cascais, Portugal

Photo: Bosc d'Anjou from New York, NY, USA · 2010-12-28 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 1024×1365

The Paula Rego Museum (formally known as the "House of Stories Paula Rego") was built as a home to an extensive collection of works by Paula Rego and her late husband Victor Willig. Rego herself selected Eduardo Souto de Moura as the architect of the project. The museum, which opened in 2009, is located in the seaside town of Cascais, about an hour by commuter train from Lisbon. Detail of the pyramid-shaped ceiling in the cafeteria.

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