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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A museum of Portuguese music that is well worth stopping off for.

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The Museu dos Condes de Castro Guimarães is in Cascais’s “Museum Neighbourhood”, an area containing the town’s most important and iconic museums.

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Be a 21st-century explorer and travel in time at this 19th-century society, with its museum full of objects from every country in Portugal’s former colonial empire.

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If you visit the Palácio de Belém, also discover the Museu da Presidência da República, housed in the palace’s old coach house, and learn about the founding of the republic in Portugal.

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In this museum of the whole sea, the various themed displays cover everything from marine biodiversity through to traditional fishing.