Museums & Monuments

Discover all of the city’s museums and monuments. Whether you have a pre-defined list of interests or prefer to go with the flow, here you can check out all the cultural venues and museums in the city, from major icons to the most unexpected of collections. From historic places to the most recent museum and architecture projects, there is much to see in a city which is constantly reinventing itself. From the classic to the contemporary, visual arts to performing arts, listed monuments to new interactive exhibitions, in Lisbon there is always a unique show to see or an impressive monument to visit. And this is the place to find them.

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MAC/CCB defines itself as the great museum of modern and contemporary art in Portugal. Here, the visitor can enjoy works by artists from the most diverse cultural contexts and varied expressions.

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A compelling reference both for Lisbon and Portugal and a European milestone bearing witness to long lasting relationship between Portugal - the first country to reach the East - and the peoples of Asia.

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Discover this house museum off the main tourism routes in Lisbon and enjoy the impressive collection assembled by Medeiros e Almeida throughout his life.

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Discover the Museu do Aljube – Resistência e Liberdade whose name belies its aim: to remember and document the struggle against Portugal’s dictatorship.

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Visit Lisbon’s Museu das Comunicações that examines how the Portuguese have communicated with each other over the last 5 centuries.