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Set on Avenida da Ilha da Madeira in the central Restelo district of western Lisbon, the Museu Nacional de Etnologia is the principal Portuguese national ethnographic museum and one of the principal continuing centres of the wider Portuguese anthropological and ethnographic research community. The museum was originally founded in 1965 by the Portuguese ethnologist Jorge Dias as the Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar and was substantially expanded and renamed during the post-1974 revolutionary period...