Indo-Portuguese Museum, Christian art museum in Fort Kochi, India.
The Indo-Portuguese Museum is a Christian art institution in Fort Kochi displaying religious artifacts such as altars, treasures, and processional items from regional churches. The collections are arranged across five sections, each focusing on a different type of object or use.
Bishop Joseph Kureethra founded the museum to protect and display Portuguese-influenced religious art from churches in and around Fort Kochi. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon selected the works and designed the museological layout, and the building has housed the collection since 2000.
The displays show how Indian and Portuguese worlds merged through religious art, metalwork, and ceremonial objects from regional churches. These pieces reveal how faith connected people across different traditions and everyday practices.
The museum occupies a building inside the Bishop's House compound at Fort Kochi, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and opened in 2000. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation also published a catalogue of the collection, which is available at the museum. Visitors can use it to identify the five sections: Altar, Treasure, Procession, Civil Life and Cathedral.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation of Lisbon chose the works on display and designed the museum layout, and it also funded the building erected in 2000. The foundation published a catalogue that is sold at the museum.
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