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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 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 ...
* 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 implem ...
* 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 situa ...
*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 * 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'' () is a historical building in Lagos, Portugal, 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 u ...
*Museu Municipal Dr. José Formosinho *Núcleo Museológico Rota da Escravatura


Leiria

*Banco das Artes Galeria *Moinho do Papel *
Museu de Cerâmica (Caldas da Rainha) The Museu de Cerâmica, located in Quinta Visconde de Sacavém, in the city of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, is a ceramics museum.José Malhoa Museum


Lisbon and Lisbon District


Cascais

* Casa das Histórias Paula Rego * Casa de Santa Maria * Casa Sommer * Cascais Citadel Palace Museum * Condes de Castro Guimarães Museum * 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

* Ajuda National Palace *
Archaeological Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology ...
* Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon *Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar * Beau-Séjour Palace * Berardo - Art Deco Museum * Berardo Collection Museum * Cadeia do Aljube * Carris Museum *
Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves The Museum-Residence of 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 Nouveau art and artifacts. It is located in ...
* 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 art, Islamic World, China and Japan, as well as the F ...
* Carmo Convent (Lisbon) *
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 of Lisbon. The house, built in the early 16th century in the Alfama neighbourhood, has a curious f ...
* Centro de Apoio Social de Runa *
Chiado Museum The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado (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 ...
* Cordoaria Nacional * Electricity Museum (Lisbon) (since 2016 part of
MAAT Maat or Maʽat ( Egyptian: ''mꜣꜥt'' /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ) comprised the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Maat 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 *Money Museum * Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (former Electricity Museum) *
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's popular life pavilion in 1940, and after the exhibition was refurbished and in ...
* 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 Portugal, Portuguese national art museum located in Lisbon. With over 40,000 items spanning a vast collection of painting, sculpture, gol ...
* National Archaeology Museum (Lisbon) *
National Coach Museum The National Coach Museum () is located in Lisbon, Portugal. First established in 1905 as the Royal Coaches Museum (), the museum houses historic horse-drawn coaches and carriages that belonged to the royal houses of Portugal from the 16th t ...
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National Museum of the Azulejo 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 f ...
* 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 (NRM) is a museum in York, England, 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 historical ...
* National Theatre and Dance Museum *
National Museum Soares dos Reis Soares dos Reis National Museum () 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 Portuguese city of Porto. Founded in ...
* Navy Museum * Museum of the Orient * Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira *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 ...


Sacavém

* Casa Museu José Pedro * Ceramics Museum of Sacavém


Sintra

*Museu Anjos Teixeira *Museu De Arte Moderna * Museu do Ar *
Ferreira de Castro Museum The Ferreira de Castro Museum is a museum in Sintra, Portugal devoted to the life of José Maria Ferreira de Castro, a Portuguese journalist and writer, who was buried in the hills overlooking the city. The museum is run by the municipality of Si ...
* 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 Fânzeres is a town and a former civil parish in the municipality of Gondomar, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova. Its population is around 20,000. Fânzeres station, the terminus of line F o ...
*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 () is a City#Portugal, city and a Concelho, municipality in the district of Porto District, Porto in Portugal. The municipality covers an area of approximately and had 172,557 inhabitants in 2021. It is bordered by the municipalities o ...
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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 Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District ...
*Bank of Materials * Casa de Serralves — Fundação de Serralves ( Lordelo do Ouro) * Casa do Infante — Núcleo Museológico do Museu do Porto (
São Nicolau (Porto) São Nicolau, meaning "Saint Nicholas" in Portuguese, may refer to the following places: Brazil * São Nicolau (Rio Grande do Sul), a municipality of the state of Rio Grande do Sul * São Nicolau River, a river in the state of Piauí Cape Verde ...
) * 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 Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District ...
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Casa-Museu Marta Ortigão Sampaio The Casa-Museu Marta Ortigão Sampaio (Marta Ortigão Sampaio's House Museum) is a small museum located in the city of Porto, Portugal. Marta was born in Porto into an upper-class family in end of 19th century, her father being a prominent intellect ...
Cedofeita Cedofeita () 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 22,077, in an area of .
* 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 Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District ...
) * Numismatics Cabinet * 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 — (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 — 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

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A Filantrópica A Filantrópica is an arts cooperative located in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Its headquarters and arts and literature galleries are located in Rua da Lapa street, 1. Currently, the main entrance is located in Rua 31 de Janeiro, a parallel and mor ...
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 ...
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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 lo ...
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 ...
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Santa Casa Museum of Póvoa de Varzim Santa Casa Museum of Póvoa de Varzim (Portuguese: ''Museu da Santa Casa da Misericórdia da Póvoa de Varzim'' or simply ''Museu da Santa Casa'' or ''Museu da Misericórdia'') is a museum with a religious theme located in Póvoa de Varzim, Portug ...


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 and 94,672 inhabitants in 2021, and it is subdivided into four parishes: ...


Vila Nova de Gaia

*Casa-Museu Teixeira Lopes / Galerias Diogo de Macedo –
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 populati ...
* Museu das Pescas da Estação Litoral da Aguda Vila Nova de Gaia * Museu de Ervamoira
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 populati ...
* Museu de Santa Maria Adelaide
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 populati ...
* Museu do Granito
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 populati ...
* Museu do Regimento de Artilharia da Serra do Pilar
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 populati ...
* Museu Sandeman do Vinho do Porto
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 populati ...
* Solar Condes de Resende
Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, 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 populati ...


Santarém

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Wax Museum of Fátima The Wax Museum of Fatima () is a wax museum located in the city of Fatima, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in ...
Fátima * Museum of the Life of ChristFátima * Museum of Sacred Art and EthnologyFátima


Setúbal

* Dom Fernando II e Glória *
Monastery of Jesus of Setúbal The Monastery of 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 architecture, Gothic. Th ...


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 This is a list of museums, it is sorted by country, topic and by size. The total number of museums in the world is disputed. UNESCO claims that there are 95,000 museums today. The International Council of Museums has 57,208 members in 137 countrie ...
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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 2023, Portugal had 26.5 million international visitors. In addition, there were ...
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Culture of Portugal The culture of Portugal designates the cultural practices and traditions of the Portuguese people. It is rooted on the interactions between many different civilizations that inhabited the area during the past millennia. From Prehistoric Iberia, ...
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Museums A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
Museums A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ...
Museums A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...