The Côa Museum is a structure managed by the COA PARQUE Foundation. It was inaugurated on 30 July 2010 and has received since opening, more than 100,000 visitors. It overlooks the junction of the Coa with the Douro, seamlessly integrated into a landscape of great natural beauty. The building was designed by Camilo Rebelo and Tiago Pimentel, a team of architects from Porto. More than an archeology museum, the Coa Museum is mainly an art museum. It deals with the origins of art and its importance to pre and proto-historic societies but emphasizes its connection to the present.
The exhibition design was conceived within all scientific certainty, as an exhibition explaining the rock art cycles of the Lower Coa and High Douro. These have started in the Upper Paleolithic, over 25,000 years ago, and come to the present day. Of course the real museum is the valley where the decorated rocks contain more than 1,000 motifs. Whose paradigmatic synthesis is presented in the CÔA MUSEUM.
Location: Vila Nova de Foz Côa
