The list which follows is the result of accomplishment of an inquiry sent by APAI to all museological institutions which are possible to localize in this thematic sector.
      We are awaiting informations in respect of museums only those identified and have requested other entities to send the necessary informations meant to appear in the future database. We are hoping to maintain collaboration with all the museums, modernising permanently the available information, also we are asking comprehension for any involuntary lapse committed.

Museum of Science - University of Lisbon
Established on 8th May, 1985 by the University of Lisbon.
Director: Prof. Doctor Fernando Bragança Gil

Permanent exhibition of scientific equipment (the exact sciences); planetarium; astronomic observatory; interactive scientific mountings. Temporary exhibitions; itinerant exhibition ("AIDS - its rights and obligations"); lectures; talks (Cycle "Late Evening Work at the Museum of Science"); courses of astronomy; especial sessions of scientific propagation and of museology of sciences; library and documentation centre; "show-room of science".

Publications: Bulletin Live Science; Guide-book of Permanent Exhibition; Science Museum of the University of Lisbon: its Characterisation on Understanding of Museology of Sciences; Bibliographic Background of Polytechnical: I - From Incunabula to Ancient Book;

Catalogues: 150th Anniversary of Polytechnical School and 75th Anniversary of Faculty of Sciences, 1987; Portuguese Chemists (1780-1930), 1993; Hundred Years of X-Rays Discovery, 1995; AIDS-its rights and obligations, 1995; Descartes and the Science, 1998.

Municipal EcoMuseum of Seixal - Nucleus-Seat
Responsible: Dr. Ms. Graça Filipe

Polynucleus museum of borough' heritage, constituted by Nucleus-Seat, Naval Nucleus of Arrentela and Traditional River-boats of Tagus, Rural Property of Trindade, Tide Mills of Corroios and Cork Factory of "Mundet" (Caldeiras' building);
Nucleus-Seat: Permanent exhibition of ethnographic, archaeological and techno-industrial character about the region;
Temporary exhibitions: "Agricultural and Rural Spaces in Seixal's Borough"... Information and Documentation Centre; Educative Service; Exhibitions Service - Itinerancies; Restoration and Maintenance Laboratory; Museographic Service; thematic visits; work-rooms.

Publications: Seixal's EcoMuseum. The Territory, the Man, the History; Catalogues of temporary exhibitions realized; Museology and Autharchies: Experiences and Perspectives; Minutes of 1st Expedition of Romanization of Estuaries of Tagus and Sado; collection of postcards; materials of educative support;...

Naval Nucleus of Arrentela - Municipal EcoMuseum of Seixal
Established in 1982 by the Municipality of Seixal
Responsible: Dr. Ms. Graça Filipe

Initiation workshop to naval construction; thematic visits; work-rooms.
Traditional river-boats of Tagus River - Narrow long boat "Amoroso" (1994); Boats of Frigate "Gaivotas" (1982) and "Bay of Seixal" (1989) - trips depend on tides' time-table (unavailable between November and March).

Publications: Until Arrival of Vessels to the River-side: The Ship in Portugal hinterland in the16th Century (Album and CD-ROM); collections of postcards; leaflets.

Naval Nucleus - Municipal Museum of Almada
Established in 1984 by the Municipality of Almada
Director: Dr. Luís Pequito Antunes

Permanent exhibition about naval construction and fisheries;
Temporary exhibitions about "Wooden Naval Construction" and "River Boats"; work-rooms and animations; documentation centre; educative services.

"NovaDelta" Coffee Museum
Established on 21st December, 1994 by company "NOVADELTA, Comércio e Indústria de Cafés, Lda."
Directress: Dr. Ms. Ana Cristina Braguês Gameiro Caldeira

Permanent exhibition about methods of toasting, transformation, commercialization and consumption of coffee.
Temporary exhibitions; pedagogic-didactic materials.

Nucleus of Salt - Municipal Museum of Alcochete
Established on 15th August, 1990 by the Municipality of Alcochete
Directress: Dr. Ms. Paula Costa

Permanent exhibition about production of salt.
Temporary exhibition "Alcochete - Land of Salt"; educative services; documentation centre; pedagogic-didactic materials.

Museologic Nucleus of "A Nacional - Companhia Industrial de Transformação de Cereais, S.A."

Rua do Beato, 44 - 1900 Lisboa

Rice Museum

Comporta - Setúbal

Labour Museum "Michel Giacometti" - Municipality of Setúbal

Largo Defensores da República - 2900 Setúbal

Museum of Canned Foods - Municipal Museum of Portimão

Municipality of Portimão - Quinta do Bispo - Portimão

National Museum of Wine
Established in 1968 under patronage of the Institute of Vineyard and Wine.
Responsible: Fernando Gonçalves

Permanent exhibition of ethnographic nature about wine production.
Temporary exhibition "Ciúmes de Baco" ("Bacchus Jealousies").

Publications: Catalogue "Ciúmes de Baco" ("Bacchus Jealousies"), (1998).

Tide Mill of Corroios - Municipal EcoMuseum of Seixal
Established in 1986 by the Municipality of Seixal
Responsible: Dr. Ms. Graça Filipe

Permanent exhibition about crafty process of grinding by making good use of Tide energy; production of wheat, maize and rye flours by the said process and its trade.
Temporary exhibitions: "The Earth and the Man - Geological Aspects of Seixal Borough"; "Mother Earth...Bread Soil"; "Gunpowder Factory of Vale de Milhaços - To Comemorate the Centenary" (1998).
Thematic visits; work-rooms; conversations; concerts.

Publications: Catalogues of exhibitions accomplished; Tide Mill of Corroios (model for fitting up); collection of postcards; Water or Tide, Name of Stone, by Miso Ensemble (CD).

Museum of Woolen Goods - University of Beira Interior
Established in 1992 by the University of Beira Interior
Responsible: Dr. Ms. Elisa Calado Pinheiro

Permanent exhibition poly-nucleused about production of woolen goods, formed by Dye Works' Nucleus of Royal Textile Factory (séc.XVIII), by Nucleus of the "Râmolas de Sol" (beginning of XX century) and by Veiga Royal Factory (XVIII-XX centuries) - under project.
Documentation centre/Historical Archives - Laboratory of Images and Restauration, Images and Database, Storage of Archives and Documentation.
Temporary exhibitions: "The Factory of José Mendes Veiga", "The Covilhã in Track of Wool", "Wanderings of up-country places".
Trips of Industrial Archaeology; Fashion Parade.

Publications: Catalogue of the Dye House Nucleus of the Royal Textile Factory (1998); Roteiro of Museum de Lanifícios of University of Beira Interior - Nucleus of Tinturaria of Real Fábrica de Panos (1998); Videogram Museum of Woolen Goods of the University of Beira Interior (1995); Collection of 12 postcards of the Museum of Woolen Goods.

Museum of Textile Industry- Municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão
Established on 1st June, 1989 by the Municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão.
Responsible: Dr. Ms. Suzana Faro

Permanent exhibition about the history of cotton textile industry of Vale do Ave (under preparation).
Temporary exhibitions about "Industrial Heritage of Vale do Ave" (1992), "The Textile of Matosinhos in the Vale do Ave" (1993), "61 Proposals of a Narrow Stripe..." (1994), "Famalicão, the Industry and the Textile" (1995), "The Server Europe within reach of all" (1998).
Lectures, weaver's work-rooms, visits to textile factories of the region, fashion parade, juvenile reading sessions.

Publications:Informative Bulletin Museum of the Textile Industry; Industrial Heritage of Vale do Ave (1992).

Museum of Dark Powder - Municipality of Oeiras
Opened on the 11th July, 1998 by the Municipality of Oeiras.
Director: Prof. José Manuel Constantino

Permanent exhibition about the Powder Factory of Barcarena and the industry of dark powder.
Temporary exhibitions, auditorium and services annexed to the museum in the sector of Powder Factory.

Publications: Guide-book of Bibliographic and Recording Sources; The Powder Factory of Barcarena and its Hydraulic Systems (1995).

Museum of Powder "Major Engineer João Victor Ferreira of Fonseca"
Opened on the 4th December, 1988 by "SPEL - Socieofde Portuguesa de Explosivos, S.A."
Responsible: Carlos Maia

Permanent exhibition of equipments, buildings and factory estate with the respective history.
Graphic, bibliographic, photographic and documental estate.

Museum of CUF - Quimiparque, S.A.
Established on the 1st January, 1990 by the company "QUIMIPARQUE, S.A."
Director: Dr. Adelino Carrilho

Permanent exhibition about the history of ancient company "CUF-Companhia União Fabril" ("Alfredo da Silva" House and museologic space) and about jute production (Jute Museum).
Temporary exhibitions: photographic competition of Barreiro Industrial Park; exhibitions in schools.
Documental and photographic archives of CUF; "Alfredo da Silva" estate.

Iron Museum and of the Moncorvo Region
Established by the company "Ferrominas E.P." in 1983 and acquired in 1995 in association established between Archaeological Project of Moncorvo Region and the Municipality of Torre de Moncorvo.
Responsible: Set-up Committee for the Iron Museum and of the Moncorvo Region.

Permanent exhibition about iron ore mining archaeology (installed in a new building).
Temporary exhibitions: "Towards Northeastern Lands" (1996); "Pottery of Felgar" (1997); "Biography of Ambassador A. Martins Janeira" (1998).

Publications: Catalogue - Iron Museum and of the Moncorvo Region - Introduction to a Museologic Program, 1996; Pottery Centres of the District of Bragança - Potteries of Felgar and Larinho, 1997.

Museologic Nucleus of the "Mundet" Cork Factory - Caldeiras' Building - Municipal EcoMuseum of Seixal
Established in 1998 by the Municipality of Seixal.
Responsible: Dr. Ms. Graça Filipe

Permanent exhibition of boilershouse of the "Mundet" Factory equipped by the british company "Babcock".
Temporary exhibitions: "Mundet at Vibrating of the Time - Photographs of Rosa Reis"; "Industrial Iconography - Painting of Luis Badosa".
Thematic visits; work-rooms.

Publications: Catalogues of temporary realized exhibitions.

Glass Museum
Established on 10 October, 1997 by the Municipality of Marinha Grande.
Responsible: Town councillor of Culture - Municipality of Marinha Grande.

Permanent exhibitions about the national and local production of glass (XVIII-XX centuries).
Temporary exhibitions: "In Vitro 98", "Masters of Fire" (1998), "The Glass in Philately" (1998).
Conversations, Seminaries; Documental centre; Restoration of machines and maintenance workshop.

Miner Museological Park - Association of Defence of Environment and Mining Resources
Association for Defence of Environment and Mining Resources, created in January, 1998.
Responsible: Clifford Issler

Permanent exhibition of mining archaeology (history of mineralization and of copper's matallurgy); copper's mine in open sky; reconstitution of a calcolithic fortress (2.500 a.C.) and of a primitive village; melting furnaces.

Museum of Transports and Comunications
A non-profit and public utility private association instituted in 1992.
Responsible: Dr. Ms. Isabel Maria Cardoso Ayres

Permanent exhibition of photographs and motor-cars miniatures.
Temporary exhibitions: "Comunication/Comunications" - interactive exhibition (1998); other exhibitions about the thematic of the transports and of communications.
Educative services; holding of fairs, lectures, seminaries, theater, edition of newspapers, etc.

Publications: Catalogue - New Customs: The Place and the Sign, 1995.

Rails' Museum - "Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa, S.A." (Lisbon Railways Company)
Established on 12th January, 1999 by "Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa".
Responsible: Engineer Almeida Correia

Radio Museum (RDP) - Portuguese Broadcasting Corporation
Opened on the 14th Maio, 1992 by RDP - "Radiodifusão Portuguesa, S.A."
Responsible: Dr. Manuel Bravo

Permanent exhibition of radiophonic equipments.
Bibliographic and documental estate; auditorium; radio studio; exhibition spaces, amateur transmitter and receiver's station.
Temporary exhibitions: "60 Years of Radio", 1985.
Copying service of written and sound documents; lending of equipments and cession of spaces.

Publications: "History of Radio Through Dates"; "The War of Waves", "120 Years of Sound Recording"..

Nacional Museum of Printing Press/Newspapers and Graphic Arts
Opened on the 4th April, 1997 by AMI - "Associação Museu da Imprensa."
Responsible: Dr. Luis Humberto Marcos

Bibliographic and documental estate.
Temporary exhibitions: "150 Years of Cartoon in Portugal", "Amarelhe: The Diplomat of Cartoon", "Luiz Filipe, a pioneer of Modernism", "Press, Censure and Liberty", "Porto Cartoon - Internacional Festival of Cartoon", "Portuguese Press: Rodrigo Álvares, 500 Years".
Internet kiosk; live sessions of cartoon; printing of evocative texts by the visitors; annual school competitions (two editions).

Publications: Museum Journal (nr 0 and nr 1); Catalogues of exhibitions - "150 Anos of Cartoon in Portugal", "Amarelhe: The Diplomat of Cartoon", "Luiz Filipe, a pioneer of Modernism", "Press, Censure and Liberty"..

Water Nucleus - Municipal Museum of Almada
Established in 1994 by the Municipality of Almada.
Director: Dr. Luís Pequito Antunes

Permanent exhibition of estate from the Municipal Water and Sanitation.
Documentation centre; educative services.