A major figure of Portuguese Modernism, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918) is the main reference of this museum, housed in the second cloister of the former Dominican convent of Saint Gonçalo.
But this space also has collections associated with local history and the memory of other great figures of art and literature from Amarante, such as Paulino Cabral (1719-1789), António Carneiro (1872-1930), Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877-1952), Acácio Lino (1878-1956), Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922-2019), among others.