Museum devoted to the life and work of Sister Mary Jane Wilson, founder of the Franciscan Sisters of Nossa Senhora das Vitórias Congregation. It has five rooms where some old pictures, personal objects of Mary Jane Wilson and vast collection of works are in exhibition.

A funcionar na antiga casa de João Gonçalves Zarco, descobridor da Madeira, este espaço apresenta uma coleção de mobiliário português e inglês dos séculos XVI a XIX, cujo acervo conta com cerca de 3800 peças provenientes de diferentes países: Europa, Oriente (China, Japão), Portugal (incluindo as peças de âmbito regional), maioritariamente bens de natureza artística - Artes Decorativas - ainda que existam pequenos núcleos de objetos arqueológicos e etnográficos. É possível apreciar porcelanas, pratas, faiança, escultura e pintura. Integra elementos das mais diversas proveniências, mas sobretudo de Igrejas, Conventos, e Edifícios Públicos, alguns dos quais remontam aos finais do séc. …

Museum opened in 1957, at the space of the Municipal Museum of Funchal, located at the São Pedro Palace. It has 15 tanks exhibiting various species of the Madeira coast sea fauna.

A Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas foi inaugurada em 1988. Ocupa o Palácio da Calçada, antiga residência dos Condes da Calçada, cuja origem remonta ao século XVII. Foi durante cerca de 40 anos moradia do Dr. Frederico de Freitas (1894-1978), advogado, notário e colecionador madeirense, que adquiriu um impressionante conjunto de obras de arte, legado por sua morte à Região Autónoma da Madeira. Ao especial encanto de um interior de habitação, alia-se a ambiência daquela que foi a casa de um dos maiores colecionadores locais, onde se reunem importantes núcleos de mobiliário, escultura, pintura, cerâmica, vidros e metais. Em 1999, a …

This space assembles the goods given by João Carlos Abreu, regional secretary of Tourism and Culture of Madeira. There’s an exhibit of a collection of about ten thousand pieces, such as books, ceramics, paintings and bronze objects.

The museum Photographia Vicentes is based in the collection of the atelier founded in 1845, with a department of emulsified glasses unique in the world. It is placed in the former photographic studio of Vicente Gomes da Silva, built in 1865 and remodelled in 1887, keeping its architectonical characteristics until today. This space also has about 800 thousand negatives of collection of professional and amateur photographers, and a small nucleus for Cinema.

This museum exhibits a private collection of Mário Barbeito Vasconcelos about Vasco da Gama, namely maps, engravings, rare books and coins referring to Cristovão Colombo.

Museum with a permanent collection, opened in 1993, offering a perspective of the history and development of São Lourenço Fortress.

Museum placed on a set of buildings where the production, storage, commercialization, and exportation of Madeira wine, this is one of the oldest cellars in Funchal. Here are letters of famous personalities, documents of English firms that began the company, books, tools, a press from the XVII century and machines from that time.

Space opened in 1987 where you may get to know sculptures, engravings and drawings by Francisco Franco as well as oil paintings and carbon drawings by Henrique Franco.