Exhibitions in Lisbon

Museu de Lisboa

In the Backroom at the Pimenta Palace: 90 years of the Friends of Lisbon Group, the civic association that has fought for the city's heritage since 1936.

MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

Photographs, interviews and archives portraying the Portuguese army's female paratrooper nurses who served in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.

Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Ciência Viva

27 interactive exhibits reveal the evolved "superpowers" of Portuguese animals, from the peregrine falcon's 300 km/h dive to the Iberian wolf's howl.

Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) · Free

New works by Diogo Pimentão in the Drawing Room, some made during a performance with dancer Emmanuel Eggermont, pushing drawing through paper, graphite and the body.

Museu de Marinha

How neutral Portugal's navy, merchant and fishing ships rescued some 6,000 people from 12 nations' vessels in WWII, and the Portuguese seafarers lost to the war.

Museu do Fado

Centenary show on Carlos Paredes (1925-2004), master of the Portuguese guitar, through his instruments, records, documents and films.

Casa Fernando Pessoa

How Pessoa's legend grew after 1935 from the famous trunk of unpublished papers. Curated by Antonio Sáez Delgado; visitors assemble their own take-away selection of texts.

Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência

A decolonial reading of photographs and scientific objects from Portuguese geodesy and anthropology expeditions to colonised territories, from the late 19th century to 1974.

Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência

An immersive 1,200m² journey through ten Portuguese ecosystems: climb a mountain, descend into a cave and dive into the ocean among plants, animals and fossils.

Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência

Six centuries of Portuguese natural-history illustration, shown alongside specimens and models, exploring images made both to enchant and to communicate science.

Museu do Oriente

More than 1,500 objects, recreated altars and shrines trace Japan's calendar of Shinto and Buddhist festivals, from New Year and the Boys' and Girls' festivals to funeral rites.

Museu do Aljube – Resistência e Liberdade · Free

Women political prisoners and resisters under Portugal's dictatorship: who they were, how they endured prison, exile and underground life, and who supported them.

MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

Around 90 works by 58 leading Portuguese contemporary artists, from Helena Almeida to Julião Sarmento, drawn from a collection of some 2,500 works from the 1960s to today.