Gulbenkian Museum bookmark

Bookmarks from Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum building, designed by architects Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia, Pedro Cid and Alberto Pessoa (1969) was built to house a collection of approximately 6,000 pieces gathered by Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian and is located in the northern part of the Gulbenkian garden. Its galleries exhibit a collection of ca. 1,000 pieces distributed among the sections of Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Mesopotamian, Islamic, Armenian, and Far Eastern art, and in Western art, Sculpture, Book Art, Painting, 18th-century French Decorative Arts, and works by René Lalique. Six bookmarks available. See photo. €1 per bookmark.

Of Armenian origin, Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian was born in Üsküdar, Turkey, during the Ottoman Empire. In 1896, due to the persecution of the Armenian community, Gulbenkian left Turkey with his family. After a brief stay in Cairo, he settled in London and acquired British citizenship. Later, he bought a mansion on Avenue d'Iéna in Paris. With the outbreak of World War II, Gulbenkian settled in Lisbon, where he remained until his death in 1955.

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