Museums
Lisbon has more than 50 Museums, which exhibit pieces and works of art ranging from Antiquity to the present day. In a city with more than 3,000 years of history, there are traces dating from its founding by the Phoenicians, pieces that testify the Portuguese discoveries of the XV to the XVII centuries or even design pieces signed by famous international designers of this century. Art works (by artists such as Dürer, Bosch, Picasso, Jean Paul Gaultier, Paula Rego), sciences, ethnography, music, all of this can be found in Lisbon’s Museums. Most of them charge an entrance fee (information on prices can be found on each page), but on Sundays and until 14h00, entrance is free in all public Museums.
Museums in Lisbon
City Museum
For those who really want to know Lisbon, the City Museum is a must see; here is told Lisbon’s history since pre-history to the 20th century. The museum is located at Campo Grande, in an 18th century palace (Pimenta Palace). It was built by King John V for his mistress, who, according to history, was [...]
Coach Museum
The Coach Museum is one of Lisbon’s most popular, annually attracting over 200,000 visitors. It was founded in 1905 by Dona Amélia de Orleães (the last Portuguese queen) and it stands in the former Royal horse riding arena, restored to settle there the vehicles of the former Portuguese Royal House and its accessories, as well as [...]
Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum
The Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum is installed since 1931 in a magnificent Chalet of the end of the 19th century, which belongs to the village of Cascais. In 1890 the aristocrat George O’Neill asked the architect Francisco Vilaça the project for a new palace. The result was a beautiful building of Romantic revivalist style, [...]
Costume National Museum
Located in Lumiar, on an 18th century palace, the National Museum of Costume is surrounded by an immense park that surprises and delights its visitors. The Monteiro-Mor Park is a beautiful botanical garden with exotic species, ponds and lakes, nice shadows and quiet places. It was planted in the 18th century along with the construction [...]
Design and Fashion Museum
The MUDE, Museum of Design and Fashion was opened in 2009, in Rua Augusta (near the Arc). From 1999 to 2006, it had already existed in Centro Cultural de Belém the Design Museum. Here was displayed the fantastic design collection of the 20th century from the Portuguese economist Francisco Capelo. The old headquarters of the [...]
Electricity Museum
Situated in Belém, next to the Tagus River, the Electricity Museum is one of the best examples of industrial architecture in the country. It was built in the early 20th century to provide electricity to Lisbon. This monumental building made of red brick and huge glass windows, houses a museum since 1990. It was created to [...]
Fado Museum
The Fado Museum, located in the typical Alfama neighbourhood is entirely devoted to this emblematic music of Lisbon. It uses some audio-visual environments to reveal the history of fado, also remembering its interpreters and instrumentalists. The museum covers all of the fado’s history: its inception in the eighteenth century, its internationalization since the 30′s of the twentieth [...]
House Fernando Pessoa
The Casa (House) Fernando Pessoa, located in Campo de Ourique, corresponds to the house where the great poet, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), lived the last 15 years of his life. From the original building was preserved the facade and the room that belonged to the poet. The rest of the interior was totally refurbished and adapted [...]
House-Museum Doutor Anastácio Gonçalves
The House-Museum Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves, or House Malhoa, was built in 1904 by the architect Norte Júnior, to be the house and studio of the painter José Malhoa. The house was awarded with the Valmor prize due to its architectural beauty in art nouveau style. In 1932, it was acquired by the renowned ophthalmologist and [...]
José Saramago Foundation
Jose Saramago Foundation has its origins in the will of a few men and women from different countries who wished to perpetuate the life and work of the award-winning Portuguese writer Jose Saramago. After 1993, he lived between Lisbon and the island of Lanzarote (Spain) with Pilar del Rio, whom he married in 1988. The [...]
