Museums in Lisbon that tell the story of Portugal
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Lisbon, one of the oldest cities in Europe, is known for its rich history and culture.
The city's new and classic buildings contribute to authentic time travel. From historic spaces to the most recent museum projects, there is much to discover in this city that never stops reinventing itself.
For those who like to travel back in time through museums, the Portuguese capital has over 50 museums for lovers of art, history, and Portuguese culture.
Discover the main museums in Lisbon that tell the history of Portugal.
Lisbon Story Centre - Memories of the City
Do you like to travel in time? The Lisbon Story Centre - Memories of the City allows the visitor to travel in time through an interactive space that tells the history of the city of Lisbon.
The duration of the visit is approximately 1 hour, where dramatic accounts of the main events of the city's memory are presented through the use of scenography, multimedia, and sensory experiences.
Quake
Have you heard about Lisbon's new attraction? Quake is Lisbon's new immersive museum, which gives us a glimpse and a feel of the Great Lisbon Earthquake.
The Quake, Lisbon Earthquake Centre, is located in Belém, it is more than a museum that tells us the History, it is a museum that allows us to feel it.
The earthquake of the 1st of November 1755 marked and changed the city of Lisbon forever, due to the human catastrophe and due to the reaction of the authorities of the time. If it happened today, would we be individually and collectively prepared? Quake is the answer to that question, which invites us to go to the past to prevent the future.
Convent of Carmo
Until the earthquake of 1755, the Convent of Carmo was the largest gothic monument in Lisbon. In the ruins left by the earthquake was born the Carmo Museum, full of great finds, historical and artistic pieces, ranging from prehistoric to contemporary times.
The space houses numerous sculptures, monuments, sarcophagi, weapon stones, tombstones, mummies, and fragments of ancient architecture.
Fado Museum
The Fado Museum, in Alfama, has the mission of spreading knowledge about Fado, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2011.
This museum celebrates the value of Fado as a symbol of Lisbon and Portugal, its deep rootedness in tradition and the cultural history of the country.
The Fado Museum has a school, documentation centre, auditorium, and a permanent and temporary exhibition circuit in order to promote knowledge and learning about this musical expression.
National Coach Museum
The National Coach Museum holds an important collection of carriages from the 16th to the 19th century, mostly from the Portuguese Royal House. The carriages tell some of Lisbon's most remarkable stories, like the Coche Oceano, which was part of the embassy sent to the Pope by King João V, or the carriage that witnessed the regicide of King Carlos.
The museum shows the technical and artistic evolution of the animal traction means of transport used by the European courts until the appearance of the automobile.
National Tile Museum
The National Tile Museum is located in the former Madre de Deus Convent, which allows you to travel through the history of the tile from the 15th century to the present day.
Besides the tile, the collection includes ceramics, porcelain, and earthenware from the 16th to the 21st century. In the conventual part is the Church of Madre de Deus, the largest example of Portuguese Baroque, abundantly decorated with sculptures, paintings, and tiles.
Lisbon Museum
The Museum of Lisbon was created with the purpose of bringing together a considerable part of the municipal museum heritage of the city of Lisbon. The Museum of Lisbon has five nuclei: Pimenta Palace, Roman Theatre, Santo António, Torreão Poente and Casa dos Bicos, which interpret Lisbon through material and immaterial testimonies.
Casa dos Bicos
In the riverside area of Lisbon is the archaeological core of the Casa dos Bicos, which, although much transformed, is the most important Lisbon residence of the Renaissance period.
Nowadays, this archaeological nucleus is one of the most representative examples of the civil architecture of 16th century Lisbon, where you can visit the archaeological ruins.
Roman Theatre
In the historical area of the city stands the Roman Theatre, one of the nuclei of the Museum of Lisbon, which reveals one of the most important monuments of the Roman city of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo (Lisbon).
The theatres were the most democratic places in Roman cities, where the whole population could enter. Lisbon's Roman Theatre is one of the icons of the Roman Empire, built 2000 years ago on the hillside of the Castle.
