Portugese architect Miguel Marcelino created a special museum to house a private collection of mechanical music boxes, wrapped by powder -colored opaque closed and abstract box. Named Museum of Mechanical Music, the building is located in Pinhal Novo, Palmela -a town and a municipality in Portugal and placed between low-rise buildings that surround it. 

The main façade of the museum has a concavity that marks the entrance of the building. It houses a private colection of mechanical music boxes.

Completed in 2016, the layout in the interior made up of cruciform, around a central patio, that distributes to the buildings four sides. In one side there is the lobby, that works as a vertical distribution space, and to the other sides are three galleries of varying sizes. The transition between each of these four spaces is done through four antechambers.

''The result is a box that seen outside looks very elementary, but whose interior dismantle this simplicity: exploring long diagonal perspectives that open as spaces are crossed - letting us see glimpses of galleries in a game of spatial seduction that seeks to maintain the curiosity of the visitor from the beginning to the end of the visit,'' says the architect.

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