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Aveiro

*Aveiro City Museum *Casinha de Bonecas *Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva de Aveiro *Museu de Arte Nova * Visionarium (Portugal)


Braga

* Biscainhos Museum * Braga Cathedral Treasure * D. Diogo de Sousa Museum * Image Museum *Museu da Cultura Castreja *Museu do Traje Dr. Gonçalo Sampaio * Museum Medina * Nogueira da Silva Museum *
Pius XII Museum The Pius XII Museum (in Portuguese: Museu Pio XII) is located in Braga, Portugal, in the same building of the Museum Medina, as the name from the Pope Pius XII. The collection of the museum comprise Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age impleme ...
* Stringed Instruments Museum *Alberto Sampaio Museum


Coimbra

*Academic Prison *Casa Museu Fernando Namora *
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 The ruins of the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha (Old St. Clare) are located in the city of Coimbra, in Portugal. The monastery was built in the 14th century on the left bank of the Mondego River, but had to be abandoned in the 17th century due t ...
*Museo de Coimbra *Museu dos Transportes Urbanos de Coimbra *Museo del Agua *Museu da Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Coimbra * National Museum Machado de Castro * Science Museum of the University of Coimbra


Lagos

*Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos *
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 * José Malhoa Museum


Lisbon and Lisbon District


Cascais

* Casa das Histórias Paula Rego * Casa de Santa Maria * Casa Sommer *
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 marin ...
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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 * Museum of Portuguese Music (Estoril) * Museum of the Sea, Cascais * Palácio da Cidadela * Palácio dos Condes da Guarda, Cascais * Santa Marta Lighthouse (Cascais) (and lighthouse museum)


Lisbon

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Ajuda National Palace The Palace of Ajuda ( pt, Palácio da Ajuda, ) is a neoclassical monument in the civil parish of Ajuda in the city of Lisbon, central Portugal. Built on the site of a temporary wooden building constructed to house the Royal family after the 175 ...
* Archaeological Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas * Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon *Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar * Beau-Séjour Palace * Berardo - Art Deco Museum *
Berardo Collection Museum The Berardo Collection Museum (in Portuguese: Museu Colecção Berardo) was a museum of modern art, modern and contemporary art in Santa Maria de Belém, Belém, a district of Lisbon, Portugal. It was replaced by the Conteporary Art Museum - Cen ...
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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 ...
* Carris Museum * Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves * Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida *
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 ...
* Carmo Convent (Lisbon) * Casa dos Bicos *
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-inaug ...
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Cordoaria Nacional Cordoaria Nacional:Former rope-making factory in Lisbon, now an exhibition centre The ''Cordoaria Nacional'' was a former naval rope-making factory in Belém, Lisbon District, Portugal. It now functions as an exhibition centre. History The bu ...
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Electricity Museum (Lisbon) Tejo Power Station (the old Electricity Museum, in Portuguese Museu da Electricidade) is a cultural centre that presents the evolution of energy with a Museum of Science and Industrial Archaeology concept, where themed and experimental exhibit ...
(since 2016 part of
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 ...
) * Ephemeral Museum *Fado Museum * Fort of Bom Sucesso *House Museum - Fundação Amália Rodrigues *Lisbon Army Museum *
Macau Science and Culture Centre The Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre (, I.P.), endowed with administrative autonomy and individual capital, is a public institute integrated within the internal administration of the Portuguese state, under the supervision of the Ministry of S ...
*Money Museum *
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, Architectur ...
(former Electricity Museum) *
Museu de Arte Popular The ''Museu de Arte Popular'' is an Art museum in Lisbon, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern ...
* Museu Benfica *Museu da Comunicação *Museu da Guarda Nacional Republicana * Museu da Lourinhã *Museu da Marioneta *Museum of Portuguese Decorative Arts *Museum of the Presidency of the Republic *Museum of Saint Anthony *Museu de São Roque *
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, fu ...
* National Archaeology Museum (Lisbon) *
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 fo ...
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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 district of Lisbon in Portugal. The museum has one of the finest collections of historical carriages in the world and is o ...
* National Museum of Contemporary Art * National Museum of Costume * National Museum of Ethnology *National Music Museum * National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon *
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 ...
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National Theatre and Dance Museum The National Theatre and Dance Museum ( pt, Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança) is a museum in Lisbon, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located o ...
* National Museum Soares dos Reis * Navy Museum * Museum of the Orient *
Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira The Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira (Portuguese language, Portuguese: Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira) is a Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal. History The Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira was built in 1671 as a huntin ...
*Pavilhão do Conhecimento *Pharmacy Museum * Pimenta Palace * Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Museum *Teatro Romano de Lisboa *
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 ...


Sacavém

* Casa Museu José Pedro * Ceramics Museum of Sacavém


Sintra

*Museu Anjos Teixeira *Museu De Arte Moderna * Museu do Ar *Museu Ferreira de Castro * NewsMuseum * Sintra Natural History Museum


Marinha Grande

* Casa Museu Afonso Lopes Vieira * Glass Museum of Marinha Grande (Portugal) * 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 *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)


Lousada

*Museu Vivo doo Linho – Lousada


Paços de Ferreira

*Museu Arqueológico da Citânia de Sanfins – Sanfins *Museu do Móvel


Porto

* Arqueossítio D. Hugo n.º 5 —
Sé (Porto) Sé () is a former 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 3,460, in an area of 0.49 km ...
*Bank of Materials * Casa de Serralves — Fundação de Serralves (
Lordelo do Ouro Lordelo do Ouro () is a former Freguesia (Portugal), 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.< ...
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Casa do Infante The Casa do Infante (''House of the Prince''), or alternately as the ''Alfândega Velha'' (''Old Customshouse'') is a historical house in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality o ...
— Núcleo Museológico do Museu do Porto ( São Nicolau (Porto)) * Casa Museu Fernando de Castro — (
Paranhos (Porto) Paranhos () is a parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 44,298,Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro — Casa do Dr. Domingos Barbosa (
Sé (Porto) Sé () is a former 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 3,460, in an area of 0.49 km ...
) * Casa-Museu Marta Ortigão Sampaio — Cedofeita * 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) Sé () is a former 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 3,460, in an area of 0.49 km ...
) *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) *
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 ...
— (Massarelos) * 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) *
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 Portu ...
— Palácio dos Carrancas (Miragaia) *Tesouro da Sé — Sé do Porto (Sé) *World of Discoveries -
Miragaia (Porto) Miragaia () is a former civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwest ...
*WOW Porto - The World of Wine


Póvoa de Varzim

* A Filantrópica –
Póvoa de Varzim Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portugal, Portuguese city in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 River, Minho ...
* Ethnography and History Museum of Póvoa de Varzim –
Póvoa de Varzim Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portugal, Portuguese city in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 River, Minho ...
* Santa Casa Museum of Póvoa de Varzim


Santo Tirso

* Museu de Arte Sacra de Santo Tirso - Santo Tirso * Museu Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea - Santo Tirso * Museu Municipal Abade Pedrosa - Santo Tirso


Trofa

* Museu do Automóvel Antigo de Baptista Andrade – Trofa


Valongo

* Museu da Ardósia –
Valongo Valongo () is a Portuguese municipality located in the District of Porto and 10 km from Porto, in the northern region of Portugal. The municipality area consists of 75.12 km² and 93 858 inhabitants (2011), and is subdivided into fou ...


Vila Nova de Gaia

*Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes / Galerias Diogo de Macedo –
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; cel-x-proto, Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population ...
* Museu das Pescas da Estação Litoral da Aguda – Vila Nova de Gaia * Museu de Ervamoira –
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; cel-x-proto, Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population ...
* Museu de Santa Maria Adelaide –
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; cel-x-proto, Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population ...
* Museu do Granito –
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; cel-x-proto, Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population ...
* Museu do Regimento de Artilharia da Serra do Pilar –
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; cel-x-proto, Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population ...
* Museu Sandeman do Vinho do Porto –
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; cel-x-proto, Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population ...
* Solar Condes de Resende –
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; cel-x-proto, Cale), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population ...


Santarém

* Wax Museum of Fátima – Fátima * Museum of the Life of Christ – Fátima * Museum of Sacred Art and Ethnology – Fátima


Setúbal

* Dom Fernando II e Glória *
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

* Cinema Museum of Melgaço * Geraz do Lima Carriage Museum


Vila Real

* House of the County


Viseu

* Grão Vasco Museum


See also

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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 ...
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Tourism in Portugal Tourism in Portugal serves millions of international and domestic tourists. Tourists visit to see cities, historic landmarks, enjoy beaches, or religious sites. As of 2019, Portugal had 27 million visitors. The most popular destinations ...
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Culture of Portugal The culture of Portugal is a very rich result of a complex flow of many different civilizations during the past millennia. From prehistoric cultures, to its Pre-Roman civilizations (such as the Lusitanians, the Gallaeci, the Celtici, and the ...
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Museums 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 ...
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 ...
Museums 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 ...
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 ...
Museums 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 ...