 Most of the art collection stayed with the museum, and an assemblage of documents, "didactic" works of art or artworks produced in pedagogic activities, as well as the Jeronymo Ferreira das Neves collection (donated to the art school in 1947) was transferred to the Ilha do Fundão campus, serving as core collection of the university's Museu Dom João VI.After the transfer, the Fundação Nacional de Artes (National Arts Foundation) was installed in the school's former rooms.In the 1980s some serious structural problems were detected in the building.