What to do and see in Braga District, Northern Portugal: The Best Art Galleries

Created in april 2014, zet gallery was born as a device for art democratization, dissemination and marketing aiming to strengthen artists, collectors and galleries' relationships. Today, it is a platform that brings together more than 5,000 contemporary artwork from consolidated and emerging artists, selected by our chief curator, and available for purchase 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. zet gallery is a space of exceptional characteristics, located in the center of Braga (Portugal), with an exhibition area of ​​800 m2, distributed by different rooms, supported by a small auditorium, room for the realization of plastic arts workshops and other spaces of support, where are included reservation areas, duly equipped to condition artworks.

The Image Museum is a cultural space in Braga dedicated to Photography. Braga’s municipality has the guardianship of the museum, which opened its doors on April 25, 1999. It is located in Campo das Hortas, next to Arco da Porta Nova, on a building restored by Architect Sergio Borges and that hides a building from the XIX century and a tower of the XIV century, part of the town’s old Medieval Wall. Its mission is to collect and promote Braga and its surroundings visual memory, as well as to preserve its historical archive, consisting of over 200 000 pictures that belong to two iconic houses of Braga photography: Foto Alianca and Casa Pelicano. All over the year it displays contemporary photography exhibitions, as well as exhibitions to broadcast its historical archive. A show of cameras from different periods is in permanent display, as well as a library filled with image related books, magazine and catalogues. Come and visit us, because an image is worth more than...

9 Seculos - 9 Centuries - is a very special place situated in the very centre of the city that gave birth to Portugal. We are stories of Portugal. We bring you stories you can taste and wear, experiment and decorate with. Stories you can read, listen and tell. We discover and select creative and original stories for the world to hear. 9 Seculos opened to the public in December of 2014, aspiring to be a place showcasing the best Portugal has to offer. Located in the Porta da Vila, "Town Gates", a place where one of the entrances to the town used to be, which has been part of UNESCO Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2001. It occupies the space of an old bookshop (A Siza Vieira-inspired design by architect Miguel Guedes in the 1980s, which remained untouched during the 20-year period that it was closed). Besides being of architectural interest, there is also a historical side: inside 9 Seculos there are 3 floating floors adjacent to the centuries-old city wall. Other than being a shop selling Portuguese products, amongst which you can find Bainha de Copas, Fine & Candy, Chocolataria Equador, Claus Porto, Herdade do Selao, etc), we also are an art gallery (with the old wall as a backdrop) regularly featuring modern Portuguese painters and one-off exhibitions of contemporary Portuguese artists. There is also a special selection of literature about art and portuguese culture, specifically out-of-print books, special editions and signed first editions. We also host get-togethers, talks, and concerts.