Cultural equipment belonging to the Town-Hall of Vila Nova de Gaia it was built in 1895, with project of the architect José Teixeira Lopes for residence and sculpture workshop. Nowadays it is a house-museum and owns valuable art pieces and an important collection of bronze sculptures, marble and plaster models by Teixeira Lopes (1866-1942). It is composed by two complementary units, the house that belonged to Teixeira Lopes and is kept musealised, according to the typology of house-museum and Diogo de Macedo Galleries, in annex building, of more recent construction, inaugurated in 1975 when a major part of this artist’s work was donated to Vila Nova de Gaia Town-Hall.

To avoid dispersion of Diogo de Macedo’s works, Vila Nova de Gaia Town-Hall celebrated a contract with his widow named Eva Arruda Macedo on the 19th of March 1971, establishing a payment of a lump sum in the act of signature and after of a lifetime income to the heir. Like that the Diego de Macedo Galleries were born, paying homage to the sculpture from Mafamude parish who has also been director of the Contemporary Art Museum and organised the classification of public interest buildings. Nowadays, together with Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes and under the purview of the local city council of Culture, it is the place for the organization of art exhibitions, some conceived with the original collection and later additions, other commissioned by great names of art and assemble prestigious external collections.