Fodor's Expert Review Museu da Cerâmica

This museum in the Romantic-style former house of the Viscount of Sacavém contains ceramics by the noted 19th-century artisan and artist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, as well as works by his Caldas da Rainha contemporaries. Some of his most famous figurines, done in gaudy colors, are the peasant Zé Povinho, wet nurse Ama das Caldas, and English aristocrat John Bull. Other amusing figures include a pig's head on a platter and leaping frogs. The museum has a gift- and bookshop and a cafeteria as well.