The Museu Nacional Grão Vasco has a collection that includes artworks of diverse typologies and chronologies. The museum's main collection consists of a remarkable set of altarpiece paintings, originating from the Cathedral, churches in the region, and deposits from other museums, authored by Vasco Fernandes (c. 1475-1542), known as Grão Vasco, collaborators, and contemporaries. The collection also includes objects and figurative supports originally intended for liturgical practices (painting, sculpture, goldsmithing, and ivories, from the Romanesque to the Baroque), mostly also from the Cathedral and churches in the region, along with archaeological pieces, an important collection of Portuguese painting from the 19th and 20th centuries, examples of Portuguese faience, oriental porcelain, furniture, and textiles.