![]() If your point of reference is a Louvre not in Paris or a Prado not in Madrid, you’re on your own. However, I’ve been in smaller, but still famous museums/galleries too. If your point of reference is one of the mega-galleries/museums in the world, say the Louvre in Paris or the Prado in Lisbon, then remove the “ish” from “smallish.” Compared to them, the Gulbenkian is small. “Smallish” is, of course, a subjective term. Signage said the new building will be a contemporary art museum, so I think it’ll be a second museum on the same large site, not a replacement for the existing museum. Although, a big new building was under construction when I was there. The guidebook I’m using said that the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is the best of the 40 museums in Lisbon. I haven’t gone to the requisite number of museums/art galleries that a tourist is legally obliged to visit while on a European trip. ![]() But the different levels allowed me to see the fish that spend most of their time near the top and those that spend most of their time near the bottom. On both levels, the large viewing windows are well below the water surface. The prescribed and well-channelled path through the aquarium took me around that tank twice, first on the top of two levels, then on the bottom. I don’t mean to hurt the jellyfishes’ feelings, but I’ve seen better.Ī large salt-water aquarium sits at the center of the Lisbon Oceanarium. And the two tanks didn’t contain the most attractive varieties. The Lisbon Oceanarium has only two small tanks of jellyfish. As I alluded to in my entry on the Genoa Aquarium, I tend to judge aquariums (and now oceanariums) on their jellyfish tanks. ![]() ![]() If not, feel free to scroll past this section. ![]()
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