Museums Archives - Neighbourly Lisbon

Museu do Azulejo, National Tile Museum in Lisbon

Museu do Azulejo – portuguese tiles haven

It’s an unique form of art, you will not find it in many places beside Portugal, its origins go back to the 13the century and really good quality pieces can cost a fortune. We are talking about Portuguese tiles and their main home is the National…

The museum of freedom and resistance – Aljube

The Museu do Albuje / Aljube Museum used to be a prison, located right next to Lisbon’s Sé Cathedral, and since April 25 2015 it became Lisbon’s museum of freedom and resistance, by evoking the dark years of the Portuguese authoritarian dictatorship, known as Estado Novo. This…

The largest modern art museum in Lisbon, Museu Berardo, located in Belém

The largest modern art museum in Lisbon – Museu Coleção Berardo

The Museu Coleção Berardo occupies a large portion of Centro Cultural de Belém (Belém Cultural Centre) and it displays the biggest private collection of modern and contemporary art existing in Portugal. In the early 2000s, José Berardo, a Portuguese business man that made fortune around the…

Where design and fashion meet – Lisbon’s Museum of Design and Fashion

The Museum of Design and Fashion, or MUDE, is temporarily closed and reopen in September 2017. The museum building , located in Baixa area and that used to be a bank headquarters, will be fully renovated and will have better spaces and conditions to welcome…

The house of Portuguese contemporary art – MNAC

Lisbon’s Museum of Contemporary Art has a rich collection of works of art from the second half of the 19th century until today. There you can find most of the iconic artists that belong to the history of Portuguese art, from the emergence of Romanticism,…

MAAT – Art, architecture and technology by the river

MAAT stands for Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and it is the most recent Lisbon museum. It all started with the renovation of what used to be the Museum of Electricity, an impressive power station from the industrial period by the river Tejo, owned…

Lisbon decorative arts museum- Casa Museu Medeiros e Almeida

A very well kept secret – Casa Museu Medeiros e Almeida

Once you pass the doors of this Lisbon decorative arts museum near Avenida da Liberdade, the first thing that crosses your mind is “How come is this place so hidden away from the spotlight?”. Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida is its founder, António Medeiros e Almeida, labour…