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. The wider museum was originally established as the principal Portuguese national museum covering the substantial ethnographic and cultural heritage of the various Portuguese overseas territories during the principal late colonial period. The substantial original 1965 to 1974 collection focused primarily on the various traditional cultures of the substantial Portuguese colonial territories in Africa including the various Angolan, Mozambican and Guinea-Bissau ethnic groups. The substantial post-1974 reorganisation substantially expanded the wider scope of the collection to include the substantial wider Portuguese national ethnographic heritage and various wider international ethnographic collections. The substantial principal current collection covers approximately thirty thousand individual ethnographic artefacts across the various principal regional and thematic sections. The principal individual collections include the substantial Portuguese rural collection covering the principal traditional agricultural, fishing and craft traditions of the various continuing rural Portuguese communities, the substantial African collection retained from the original 1965 collection, the various Brazilian and Latin American collections, the various Asian collections covering the principal continuing Portuguese cultural relationship with the various Asian regions, and the various smaller international ethnographic collections. The principal continuing research programme of the wider museum covers the substantial continuing Portuguese national ethnographic research community. The principal continuing research projects include the substantial continuing rural Portuguese ethnographic documentation programme, the various continuing research collaborations with the various overseas Portuguese-speaking communities including Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde, the various smaller research collaborations with various wider international ethnographic research institutions and the substantial continuing publication programme. The supplementary substantial educational programme includes substantial continuing public lecture series throughout the year, various continuing temporary exhibitions covering the various supplementary ethnographic themes, substantial continuing weekend family workshop programmes for various younger visitors and substantial continuing collaborative educational programmes with the various local Lisbon schools and universities. The principal current operating hours run Tuesday through Sunday from ten in the morning until eighteen hundred, with the museum closed on Mondays and on the principal Portuguese public holidays throughout the year.

Type: Tourist Attraction

Address: Avenida da Ilha da Madeira, Lisbon, Portugal

Opening Date: 01/01/1965