museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
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Aveiro
*Aveiro City Museum
*Casinha de Bonecas
*Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro
*Museu de Arte Nova
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Visionarium (Portugal)
Visionarium is a science museum with interactive displays in Portuguese and English covering subjects ranging from the Portuguese voyages of discoveries to the interiors of microchips and cells. It is located in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.
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Braga
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Biscainhos Museum
The Residence of Biscainhos ( pt, Casa dos Biscainhos/Museu dos Biscainhos), is a former-signeurial residence located in civil parish of Braga (Maximinos, Sé e Cividade), in the municipality of Braga, in northern Portuguese district of Braga.
His ...
Museum Medina
The Medina Museum is located in Braga, Portugal, in the same building of the Pius XII Museum
The collection comprises 83 oil paintings and 21 drawings of the naturalist painter Henrique Medina. Among the collection there are many portraits, st ...
Stringed Instruments Museum
The Stringed Instruments Museum in Portuguese: Museu dos Cordofones is located in Tebosa, in the surroundings of the city of Braga, Portugal dedicated to traditional Portuguese string instruments.
The collection features Portuguese instruments fr ...
*Alberto Sampaio Museum
Coimbra
*Academic Prison
*Casa Museu Fernando Namora
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Conímbriga
Conímbriga is one of the largest Roman settlements excavated in Portugal, and was classified as a National Monument in 1910. Located in the civil parish of Condeixa-a-Velha e Condeixa-a-Nova, in the municipality of Condeixa-a-Nova, it is situate ...
*Erotic Art Museum of Coimbra
*Exploratory - Living Science Center of Coimbra
* Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha
*Museo de Coimbra
*Museu dos Transportes Urbanos de Coimbra
*Museo del Agua
*Museu da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra
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National Museum Machado de Castro
The National Museum Machado de Castro ( pt, Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro) is an art museum in Coimbra, Portugal, named after the renowned Portuguese sculptor Joaquim Machado de Castro. It first opened in 1913 and its latest renovation (200 ...
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Science Museum of the University of Coimbra
The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra (Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra) gathers the historical scientific collections of several units of the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra, Portugal. It includes the collection of scientif ...
Lagos
*Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos
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Mercado de Escravos
The ''Mercado de Escravos'' (Slave Market) is a historical building in Lagos, in the Faro District of Portugal. It is located on the site where the first slave market in Europe of the modern era took place, in 1444. The building was first used ...
*Museu Municipal Dr. José Formosinho
*Núcleo Museológico Rota da Escravatura
Leiria
*Banco das Artes Galeria
*Moinho do Papel
* Museu de Cerâmica (Caldas da Rainha)
*Museu Escolar
*Museu da Imagem em Movimento
*Museo de Leiría
*Museu do Sporting
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José Malhoa Museum The Museu de José Malhoa (José Malhoa Museum), in Caldas da Rainha, is a regional Portuguese museum, that hosts the finest collection of the Portuguese naturalist painter José Malhoa. The museum building, the first purpose-built museum in Portug ...
Lisbon and Lisbon District
Cascais
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Casa das Histórias Paula Rego
The Casa das Histórias Paula Rego (‘’House of Stories Paula Rego’’) is a museum in Cascais, Lisbon District, on the Portuguese Riviera, designed by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura to house some of the works of the artist Paula Rego ...
Casa Sommer
Casa Sommer is a building in Cascais, on the Portuguese Riviera, which houses the Cascais Municipal Historical Archive and a branch of the Cascais Municipal Library, hosting collections pertaining to the town's archaeological, architectural, his ...
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Cascais Citadel Palace Museum
Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourist destination. Its marina ...
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Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum
Condes may refer to:
Places
* Condes, Jura, a commune in the French region of Franche-Comté
* Condes, Haute-Marne, a commune in the French region of Champagne-Ardenne
People with the surname
* Florante Condes (born 1980), Filipino boxer
See ...
*Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães
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Museum of Portuguese Music (Estoril)
The Museum of Portuguese Music ( pt, Museu da Música Portuguesa) is a small museum housed in the Casa Verdades de Faria in Estoril, municipality of Cascais, Portugal, on the Portuguese Riviera. It contains a collection of Portuguese musical inst ...
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Museum of the Sea, Cascais
The King D. Carlos Sea Museum is a Maritime Museum in the fishing town of Cascais, Lisbon District, in Portugal. It was inaugurated in 1992.
Origins
The museum is housed in the former Cascais Sporting Club. This was founded in 1879 by the then ...
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Palácio da Cidadela
The ''Cascais Citadel Palace Museum'' ('' pt, Palácio da Cidadela'') is situated inside the grounds of the Cascais Citadel, in Cascais, Lisbon district, Portugal. Formerly the residence of the governor of the citadel, it was refurbished for us ...
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Palácio dos Condes da Guarda, Cascais
The Palácio dos Condes da Guarda (Palace of the Counts of Guarda) is located in Cascais, Lisbon District, Portugal. The building now functions both as the headquarters of the Municipality of Cascais and, on the ground floor, as a museum that exp ...
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Santa Marta Lighthouse (Cascais)
The Santa Marta Lighthouse is situated to the south of the centre of Cascais, Lisbon District, Portugal, on the estuary of the River Tagus, providing a light for the Cascais Bay and for the town's new marina. It is a quadrangular masonry tower cov ...
Archaeological Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas
The Archaeological Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas in Sintra municipality, Lisbon District, Portugal owes its existence to the collection by the Hermitage of São Miguel of Epigraphy, epigraphic stones found amongst the Roman ruins in the neigh ...
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Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon
The Lisbon Astronomical Observatory ( pt, Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa) is an astronomical observatory located in ''Tapada da Ajuda'', in the civil parish of Alcântara, municipality of Lisbon. Recognized internationally for its quality of ...
*Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar
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Beau-Séjour Palace
The Palace of Beau-Séjour ( pt, Palácio do Beau-Séjour) is a 19th-century Portuguese manor house situated in the civil parish of São Domingos de Benfica, municipality of Lisbon.
History
In 1849, the ''Quinta das Louras'' (or ''Quinta das Lo ...
Cadeia do Aljube
Cadeia do Aljube is a former prison in Lisbon, Portugal, now serving as a museum.
Situated near the Sé Cathedral in the parish of Santa Maria Maior, the prison housed those convicted through the Ecclesiastical Forum until 1820, then women ac ...
Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves
The Museum-Residence of Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves ( pt, Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves) is a former residential home built in the art nouveau style that has been converted into a museum of nineteenth-century Portuguese painting and of art nou ...
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Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida
The Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida is one of the most important Portuguese private decorative arts collections, gathered by the businessman, collector, and benefactor António de Medeiros e Almeida, António Medeiros e Almeida (1895–1986).
The ...
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Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the world's most important private art collections. It includes works from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century, spanning the arts of the Islamic World, China and Japan, as well as the French de ...
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Carmo Convent (Lisbon)
The Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ( pt, Convento da Ordem do Carmo) is a former Catholic convent located in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. The medieval convent was ruined during the sequence of the ...
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Casa dos Bicos
The Casa dos Bicos (; "House of the Beaks/Spikes") is a historical house in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the Portuguese municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of ...
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Centro de Apoio Social de Runa
The Centro de Apoio Social de Runa is a residence for retired Portuguese military personnel in Runa, Portugal. The building was built by Princess Maria Francisca Benedita, and opened in 1827 as a military hospital
A military hospital is a hospi ...
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Chiado Museum
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (Chiado Museum, in Portuguese: ''Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado'' – MNAC) is an art museum located in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal. It was created in 1911 and re-inaugu ...
MAAT
Maat or Maʽat ( Egyptian:
mꜣꜥt /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ) refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Ma'at was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regul ...
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Ephemeral Museum
The Ephemeral Museum is an ephemeral art museum located in Bairro Alto, Lisbon, Portugal. It is sponsored by Pampero Fundación and is part of the Pampero Rum campaign, developed by Leo Burnett Lisboa advertising agency.
The idea began when L ...
*Fado Museum
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Fort of Bom Sucesso
The Fort of Bom Sucesso ( pt, Forte do Bom Sucesso) is located slightly to the west of the Belém Tower in Belém in the municipality of Lisbon, in Portugal. It now houses the ''Museu do Combatente'' (Combatant’s museum) and the Monument to Over ...
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology ( pt, Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia) (MAAT) is a museum in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Museum
MAAT is a cultural project for the city Lisbon that is focused on three areas - Art, Architecture ...
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Electricity Museum
Tejo Power Station (the old Electricity Museum, in Portuguese Museu da Electricidade) is a Cultural center, cultural centre that presents the evolution of energy with a Science museum, Museum of Science and Industrial Archaeology concept, wher ...
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Museu de Arte Popular
The ''Museu de Arte Popular'' is an Art museum in Lisbon, Portugal.
It was originally designed by Veloso Reis and João Simões for the Portuguese World Exhibition
The Portuguese World Exhibition ( pt, Exposição do Mundo Português) was he ...
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Museu Benfica
The Museu Benfica – Cosme Damião is the museum of Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica. Named after Cosme Damião, one of the club's founders in 1904, the museum was inaugurated on 26 July 2013 under the presidency of Luís Filipe Vieira and ope ...
*Museu da Comunicação
*Museu da Guarda Nacional Republicana
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Museu da Lourinhã
Museu da Lourinhã is a museum in the town of Lourinhã, west Portugal. It was founded in 1984 by GEAL - Grupo de Etnologia e Arqueologia da Lourinhã (Lourinhã's Group of Ethnology and Archeology). The president of the Direction Board is Lubélia ...
*Museu da Marioneta
*Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts
*Museum of the Presidency of the Republic
*Museum of Saint Anthony
*Museu de São Roque
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National Museum of Ancient Art
The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (; MNAA), also known in English as the National Museum of Ancient Art, is a Portuguese national art museum located in Lisbon. With over 40,000 items spanning a vast collection of painting, sculpture, goldware, fur ...
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National Archaeology Museum (Lisbon)
The National Museum of Archaeology ( pt, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia) is the largest archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula. Located in Lisbon, the museum ...
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National Azulejo Museum
The Museu Nacional do Azulejo (Portuguese for National Museum of the Azulejo), occasionally known in English as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum in Lisbon, Portugal dedicated to the azulejo, traditional tilework of Portugal and the for ...
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National Coach Museum
The National Coach Museum ( pt, Museu Nacional dos Coches) is located on the Afonso de Albuquerque Square in the Belém, Lisbon, Belém district of Lisbon in Portugal. The museum has one of the finest collections of historical carriages in the w ...
National Museum of Costume
The National Museum of Costume was located at Shambellie House, in New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and it formed part of the National Museums of Scotland. The museum started operating in 1982.
The museum allowed a look at fashion and t ...
National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon
The National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, Portugal ( pt, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência) is the country's main museum focusing on nature. The museum functions under the University of Lisbon.
Its rich collect ...
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National Railway Museum
The National Railway Museum is a museum in York forming part of the Science Museum Group. The museum tells the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It is the home of the national collection of historically significant r ...
National Museum Soares dos Reis
Soares dos Reis National Museum ( pt, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis) is a museum, currently housed in the Carrancas Palace situated in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portu ...
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Navy Museum
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the militar ...
Pimenta Palace
Pimenta Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Pimenta) is an 18th-century Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal, which hosts the main campus of the Museum of Lisbon.
History
The palace was constructed by order of King John V of Portugal in the ...
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Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Museum
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Museum is a municipal museum, in Lisbon, Portugal. It is entirely dedicated to the life and works of the artist Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846–1905). It shows many of his collections of caricatures and ceramics
A cera ...
*Teatro Romano de Lisboa
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Tejo Power Station
The Tejo Power Station was a thermoelectric power plant owned by the ''Companhias Reunidas de Gás e Electricidade'' (CRGE – United Gas and Electric Companies), which supplied power to the city and entire Lisbon region.
It is located in the B ...
Museu do Ar
The Air Museum ( pt, Museu do Ar) is an aviation museum of the Portuguese Air Force located at Sintra Air Base and with spaces at Ovar and Alverca.
History
The museum dates back to the ''Aero Clube de Portugal'' in 1909 and was created in ...
Sintra Natural History Museum
The Sintra Natural History Museum ( pt, Museu de História Natural de Sintra) is a museum of natural history located in the historic center of the village of Sintra. The museum has both at national and international level due to the quality and ...
Marinha Grande
* Casa Museu Afonso Lopes Vieira
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Glass Museum of Marinha Grande (Portugal)
The Marinha Grande Glass Museum ( pt, Museu do Vidro da Marinha Grande) is in the Marinha Grande () municipality in the Leiria District of Portugal. The museum is situated on the site of the first major glassworks in Portugal, established by the ...
* Joaquim Correia Museum
* SB Museum of Glass Manufacturing
Porto
Amarante
*Museu Municipal Amadeo de Souza Cardoso
*Museu Paroquial de Arte Sacra de S. Gonçalo de Amarante
*Sala-Museu do Rancho Folclórico da Casa do Povo de Figueiró
Baião
*Museu Etnográfico de Baião
*Museu Municipal de Arqueologia de Baião
*Museu Queiroziano - Casa de Tormes
Felgueiras
*Museu da Casa do Assento
*Museu de Pão de LO
*Santa Quitéria
Gondomar
*Casa da Malta/Museu Mineiro –
Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova
Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova is a civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and count ...
*Museu de Arte Sacra da Paróquia de S. Cosme
Maia
*Museu da Cidade da Maia
*Museu de História e Etnologia da Terra da Maia – Castelo da Maia (Maia)
Marco de Canaveses
*Museu Municipal Carmen Miranda
Matosinhos
*Casa-Museu Abel Salazar
*Casa-Museu Mártir São Sebastião
*Museu da Misericórdia
*Museu da Quinta de Santiago / Centro de Arte de Matosinhos
*Museu de Jazigos Minerais Portugueses do IGM – São Mamede de Infesta (
Matosinhos
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal () is a city and a municipality in the northern Porto district of Portugal, bordered in the south by the city of Porto (8 km from the city centre). The population in 2011 was 175,478, and covered an area of approx ...
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Lousada
*Museu Vivo doo Linho – Lousada
Paços de Ferreira
*Museu Arqueológico da Citânia de Sanfins – Sanfins
*Museu do Móvel
Casa de Serralves
Serralves is a cultural institution located in Porto, Portugal. It includes a Contemporary Art Museum, a Park, and a Villa, each one an example of contemporary architecture, Modernism, and Art Deco architecture. The Museum, designed by Álvaro S ...
— Fundação de Serralves (
Lordelo do Ouro
Lordelo do Ouro () is a former civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos. The population in 2011 was 22,270, in an area of 3.64 km².Casa do Infante — Núcleo Museológico do Museu do Porto (
São Nicolau (Porto)
São Nicolau () is a former Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória. The population in 2011 was 1,9 ...
Cedofeita
Cedofeita () is a former Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória. The population in 2011 was 22,077 ...
* Casa Oficina António Carneiro — (Bonfim)
*Centro Interpretativo do Património da Afurada
*Eng. António de Almeida House Museum — (Ramalde)
* FC Porto Museum
*Fundação Maria Isabel Guerra Junqueiro e Luís Pinto Mesquita Carvalho — Casa dos Freires de Andrade ( Sé (Porto))
*Gabinete de Numismática — Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão — Núcleo Museológico do Museu do Porto (Vitória)
* Holocaust Museum of Oporto
*House of Almeida Garrett
*House of Filigree
*Medical Museum of Human Anatomy
*Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves
*Museu do Centro Hospitalar do Porto
*Museu da Farmácia — (Ramalde)
*Museum of Industry — (Ramalde)
*Museum Marionetas do Porto
*Museu da Venerável Ordem Terceira de São Francisco — Igreja da Venerável Ordem Terceira de São Francisco (São Nicolau)
*Museu de Etnologia do Porto — Palácio de São João Novo (Miragaia)
*Museum of Misericórdia of Porto
*Museum of Natural History (University of Porto) — Reitoria da Universidade do Porto (Vitória)
*Museu do Papel Moeda — Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda (Aldoar)
* Museum of Transport and Communication — Alfandega Nova (Miragaia)
* Museu Militar do Porto — (Bonfim)
*National Press Museum — (Campanhã)
*Palácio das Artes
*Palacete Ramos Pinto
* Portuguese Centre of Photography — Cadeia da Relação (Vitória)
*Museum of the School of Engineering (ISEP) — Instituto Superior de Engenharia (Paranhos)
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Porto Tram Museum
The Porto Tram Museum is a museum operated by the Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto. It was inaugurated in 1992 and is installed in a former thermoelectric power station next to the River Douro in Massarelos, Porto, Portugal. It exh ...
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* Port Wine Museum — Núcleo Museológico do Museu do Porto (Massarelos)
*Puppet Museum
*Romantic Museum of Quinta da Macieirinha — Núcleo Museológico do Museu do Porto (Massarelos)
*Sacred Art and Archaeology Museum — Convento dos Grilos (São Nicolau)
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Soares dos Reis National Museum
Soares dos Reis National Museum ( pt, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis) is a museum, currently housed in the Carrancas Palace situated in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portug ...
— Palácio dos Carrancas (Miragaia)
*Tesouro da Sé — Sé do Porto (Sé)
*World of Discoveries - Miragaia (Porto)
*WOW Porto - The World of Wine
Póvoa de Varzim
Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portuguese city in Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho and Douro rivers. In 2001, there were 63,470 ...
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Ethnography and History Museum of Póvoa de Varzim
Ethnography and History Museum of Póvoa de Varzim (Portuguese: ''Museu Municipal de Etnografia e História da Póvoa de Varzim'') is a museum with a maritime and ethnic theme located in the Portuguese city of Póvoa de Varzim. The museum is loc ...
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Póvoa de Varzim
Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portuguese city in Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho and Douro rivers. In 2001, there were 63,470 ...
Dom Fernando II e Glória
''Dom Fernando II e Glória'' is a wooden-hulled, 50-gun frigate of the Portuguese Navy. She was launched in 1843 and made her maiden voyage in 1845. Built at the shipyard of Daman in Portuguese India, it was Portugal's last sailing warship to ...
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Monastery of Jesus of Setúbal
The Monastery of Jesus ( pt, Mosteiro de Jesus) is a historical religious building in Setúbal, Portugal, which served a monastery of Poor Clare nuns. It is one of the first buildings in the Manueline style, the Portuguese version of late Gothic. T ...
Viana do Castelo
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Cinema Museum of Melgaço
Cinema may refer to:
Film
* Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography
* Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image
** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
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House of the County
The House of the County or ''Casa do Condado'' is since 2007 the museum of Vila Pouca de Aguiar in Portugal. It includes a collection of cultural goods constituted by archaeological and ethnographic materials of great value from the region.
The H ...
List of museums
A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temp ...
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...