Museums in Lisbon
National Coach Museum
In the Belem neighborhood there is a beautiful collection one of the most important collections of horse drawn carriages in the world. These carriages were used in Lisbon during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The museum is in an old riding school which was inaugurated in 1905. The distinguished horse-drawn carriages on site are quite the sight to the eyes and decorated in a magnificent fashion.
Museum of the Orient
Portugal has influenced many places in the world, including in the far east. It is as can be said, the connector between east and west. At this museum there is an illuminating dialogue between both sides of the world expressed in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and so much more.
Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida
António Medeiros e Almeida donated his and his wife’s 30-year home with all its collections to Portugal and is presented as a gorgeous museum. The couple wes childless, and the purpose of the museum is to impact the young generation by stimulating the interest of the young public and savoring the artifacts in their history. The collection is presented in 25 different rooms containing various watches, Chinese porcelain, silverware by the English goldsmith Paul Storr, and so much more…
Berardo Museum
This museum is the is the most famous Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in the country. Here you can see masterpieces done by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró, Vieira da Silva, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Bruce Nauman, Max Ernst.
National Museum of Ancient Art
This wonderful Museum will tell you about Portugal’s history for the past millennia, showing the Portuguese influence around the world. Since 1884 this museum was presenting collections, when originally it opened to display the royal family’s collections. Here you can see marvelous collections from around the world of paintings, sculptures, metal work, textiles, furniture, drawings, and fantastic decorative arts.
Museu do Fado
This museum dedicated to Portugal’s unique form of song, the Fado. Fado is the cultural signature of the people of Lisbon. Since they live on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean on one side and by the Tagus river on the other side, Lisbon became a place where people come through and continue their journeys. It comes with no surprise that the age of explorers was from here. People are always missing other people here, and this is how the Fado was formed. It is not sad music, but emotional. The Museu do Fado is the museum where Lisbon commemorates this form of art.
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)
In the most interesting building in Lisbon, you will find this magnificent museum. Of course, it comes as a bit of a contradiction to the historic neighborhood it lays in, but that might be the main idea, to connect the past and the future. The idea that it is important to remember where you come from so that you can grow and produce new and incredible things. In the museum you will see new technological ideas, you will be inspired to imagines new things and to create.
National Azulejo Museum
When walking through Lisbon you will notice the incredible tiles covering the beautiful buildings, these are the Azulejos. The National Azulejo Museum has a large and magnificent collection of these tiles. Some of these tiles tell stories, others are just decorative on their own. Strolling through this divine building will tells us the story of this amazing city.