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.
The museum of the Lisbon Geographical Society is one of the best-kept secrets in Lisbon. It inherited its collection from what was once the “Colonial Museum” and assumed an ethnographic focus from early on. It grew through a campaign of acquisitions and the donations of collectors and travellers who accompanied the Portuguese outposts in the former empire. Discover ceramics, sculptures, furniture, paintings, fabrics, glass, tiles and even scientific instruments from the most disparate of sources: Angola, Guinea, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Timor and Macau. A unique exhibition, which brings together art and scientific/everyday objects and which shows the habits and depictions of distant lands. Be a 21st-century explorer and travel in time at this 19th-century society.
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