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Núcleo Arqueológico da Rua dos Correeiros (NARC)

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Rua dos Correeiros, 9
1100-161, Lisboa

Lisboa

This archaeological nucleus is devoted to the different phases of the Lisbon downtown, presenting the successive structures built in this city area, since the roman period until the XVIII century.

Igreja de São Torcato

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Rua da Santíssima Trindade
2100, Coruche

Coruche

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado

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Rua Serpa Pinto, 4
1200-444, Lisboa

Lisboa

The Chiado Museum or Modern Art National Museum, offers a panoramic of the Portuguese art from 1850 to 1960, from the romantic to the modernism period, going through the naturalism, the surrealism and the abstractionism periods. Subordinated to the theme “From Columbano till the Modernism”, this is the biggest collection of Portuguese contemporaneous art, with paintings, sculpture and drawings. It also has a French art collection from the end of the XIX century.

Museu Nacional do Traje

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Largo Júlio de Castilho, 2
1600-483, Lisboa

Lisboa

Located at the Angeja-Palmela palace, this museum integrates collections of civil clothes from the XIV to the XX centuries, popular clothes, opera dresses, accessories, toys from the XIX and XX centuries, among other curiosities. In order to maintain the conservation of its collections it has temporary exhibitions of the 35 thousand pieces it owns, organizing thematic shows. The permanent exhibition is about the textile technology. The museum has also a library specialized in the clothing history.

Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança

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Estrada do Lumiar, 10
1600-495, Lisboa

Lisboa

Located at the former Monteiro-Mor Palace, the museum exhibits a large panoply of objects related to the theatre. The exhibition includes pictures, humoristic vignettes, clothes and stage props and many other objects evocative of the life and career of personalities related to the acting art. It has a special collection consecrated to the fado singer Amália Rodrigues.

Museu de Arte Popular

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Avenida de Brasília, 202
1400-038, Lisboa

Lisboa

Museum opened in 1948, dedicated to popular arts and traditional workmanship, presenting a set of pieces that were present in the exhibition of Geneva, in 1935. The exhibition is divided by country districts, documenting the large variety existent in the country. The building was initially planed to welcome the Exposição do Mundo Português in 1940 and was later remodelled and adapted to its new functions.

Museu Nacional de Etnologia

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Avenida Ilha da Madeira
1400-203, Lisboa

Lisboa

It has an ethnographic collection coming from the counties and communities with Portuguese as an official language, but also from other globe regions, such as the Maconde people and the Amazonian Indians.

Museu Nacional dos Coches

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Avenida da Índia, 136
1300-300, Lisboa

Lisboa

Located by the river Tagus, in the western area of Lisbon, the National Coach Museum occupies the premises formerly belonging to the Oficinas Gerais do Exército (old General Military Workshops). The Royal Riding School, which used to belong to the Royal Palace of Belém, can still be visited as an exhibition nucleus of the National Coach Museum.

Museu Nacional do Azulejo

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Rua Madre de Deus, 4
1900-312, Lisboa

Lisboa

In this museum, located at the former Madre Deus Convent, the visitor is invited to make a journey through the glazed tiles art, from the XV century till our days.

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga

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Rua das Janelas Verdes, 9
1249-017, Lisboa

Lisboa

In this museum, dedicated to the plastic and decorative arts, is a collection that includes pieces from the XII to the XIX, such as paintings, illuminations, engraving, drawing, sculpture, goldsmithery, ceramic, furniture and tapestry.

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