Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas

The big reddish house on Calçada de Santa Clara, known as Casa da Calçada, once home of the Counts of Calçada, became the property of Frederico de Freitas (1894–1978), a Madeiran lawyer, notary and collector who bequeathed his vast collection to the Region in 1978; the museum was completed in 1999. Sculpture, painting, prints, furniture, ceramics, crystal and pewter of the 17th–19th centuries, with religious themes dominant; the prints on regional culture are a major iconographic source on 18th- and 19th-century Madeira.