San Francisco Building

Created in 1949, the Angra do Heroísmo Museum (MAH) has been housed in the former São Francisco Convent since 1969. It has three long-term exhibitions, the most significant of which, Do mar e da Terra…uma história no Atlântico, occupies the entire top floor of the building. There are also two other exhibition spaces dedicated to temporary exhibitions, along with visitable reserves of Species in Stone and Transport from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

The San Francisco Building is made up of the following long-term exhibition centers:

San Francisco Building | Memories;
And Steel Changed the World…A Schneider-Canet Artillery Battery in the Azores;
Portugal, the Azores and the Great War 1914-1918;
From Sea and Land… a story in the Atlantic;
Vergílio Schneider Room;
Visitable reserve of transport from the 18th to the 20th centuries;
Visitable reserve of Stone Species | The Stones of Men;
Church of Our Lady of Guia;