The Electricity Museum is dedicated to displays showing the history, utility and importance of different forms of energy in the modern world. It is housed in an imposing brick building that once supplied electricity to the city of Lisbon.
The Tejo thermoelectric power plant was converted into a museum in 1990. Construction of the building began in 1914 and it began operations in 1919. It was expanded periodically till the year 1951 resulting in a structure with different architectural styles. Extensive refurbishment was performed between 2001 and 2005 to make it the well arranged and interesting museum it is today.
The Electricity Museum has a range of boilers, furnaces, turbo alternators, coal chutes and other energy generation equipment from the 1930s including the original machines of the Tejo plant. Many of the exhibits are rare collector’s items obtained from private donors. There are also ancient and modern laboratory appliances and machines that are used to generate energy. It is also a research facility with over 15,000 books on electricity. The museum hosts several temporary exhibitions around the year. During Science Month in May, it conducts many seminars and holds children’s programs relating to the subject of energy generation and usage with a focus on green and sustainable energy sources.

The Museum of Folk Arts displays arts and crafts made by artisans from different parts of Portugal. It has a large collection of folk art that was displayed at the Portuguese Popular Art Exhibition held in Geneva in 1935.
The Museum of Folk Arts opened for public viewing in 1948 displaying collection of art exhibits made in different provinces of Portugal. Many of the crafts have stood the test of time and the crafts have been handed down from generation to generation for over a hundred years. Before the establishment of the museum, the collections were displayed at many international exhibitions and at the, ‘People’s Section of Life’, at the Portuguese World Exhibition in 1940.
The first building that housed the museum was designed by architect Veloso Reis for the Portuguese World Exhibition in 1940. It was remodeled and expanded by Jorge Segurado in collaboration with ethnographer Francisco Martinez and artist Thomas Mello in 2003. Exhibits are arranged according to the regions they come from and also according to their utility. There is an impressive collection of agricultural implements, pastoral art, musical instruments, carts, furniture, textiles, costumes, ceramics from Minho, baskets from Trassos Montes, pottery from Alentejo and fishing implements from the Algarve.

Sharing a building with the Belém Cultural Center, the Design Museum specializes in exhibiting beautiful, humorous design pieces dating back to the 1930s. The museum's extensive collections feature the works of famed design artists such as Capelo, Panton, Gehry, Starck, Newson and the Eames.

Over 500 artists from the 20th and 21st centuries are represented in this impressive repository of modern art. The permanent exhibits at The Berardo Museum are the collection by Portuguese millionaire, Jose Berardo who is the 9th richest man in Portugal.
The Berardo Museum is located at the Belem Cultural Centre and has one of the largest collections of contemporary art in Europe. It was established by the Foundation of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2006 and opened for public viewing in 2007. At first the museum had only about 863 of Berardo’s vast collection of artwork. Today the permanent collection has over 4000 works of art and new works are being added regularly. Temporary exhibitions are also hosted by the museum. Berardo’s underlying principle in the art work collected and displayed is open mindedness. As a result art from all movements, techniques and nationalities are on display.
The collection is displayed in two floors and consists of paintings, sculpture, photographs and art installations. Notable works include Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup and Portrait of Judy Garland, an art collection about war propaganda, Tete de Femme by Pablo Picasso, and Oedipus and the Sphinx after Ingres by Francis Bacon. There is also a museum shop where exhibition catalogues and books on contemporary art are available.

This Museum is dedicated to the maritime history of the best known seafaring nation in the world. Portuguese seafarers not only discovered trade routes but were also the authors of the earliest form of globalization through world trade. It is a repository of the types of ships and boats developed by the Portuguese to help them make the historic voyages for which they were well known.
The Maritime Museum of Lisbon is located in part of the Jeronimos Monastery. It is the most visited among Portuguese Museums. There are over 17,000 exhibits and a Mecca for lovers of boats, ships and maritime history. There is a large display covering two long halls dedicated to the 15th and 16th century, Age of Discovery that includes ship models that portray the evolving designs of Caravels developed under the directions of Henry the Navigator. The square sailed caravels were the ships that were used on the long voyages of discovery. The evolution of steam ships is also on view.
The Maritime Museum has a collection of fishing boats used by Portuguese fishermen in rivers and in the open sea. Another impressive collection is of Royal Barges and sailboats used by the Royal family to sail on the River Tagus.

The National Archeology museum has exhibits from archeological excavations across Portugal. It is also the most important research centre on the subject of archeology in the country.
The Western Wing of the Jeronimos Monastery houses the National Archeology Museum in Lisbon. The building with a neo Manueline architectural style was once the dormitory of the monks of St Jerome who resided at the monastery. The Museum was founded in 1893 by renowned Portuguese archeologist Jose Leite de Vasconelos and many of the permanent exhibits are from his personal collection and that of archeologist, Estacio da Veiga. It occupied the present building from 1903. The permanent collection has both ancient Portuguese objects and exhibits from other countries. The Museum also hosts temporary national and international exhibitions on various themes from time to time.
The collection at the National Archeological Museum has objects dating back to prehistoric times. Visitors are welcomed by two stone statues of Lusitanian warriors from the 1st century AD. There are busts, masks and funerary objects from ancient Egypt and Roman ornaments and mosaics unearthed in Southern Portugal. Other notable exhibits include Iron Age, Visigothic jewelry and Moorish artifacts dating back to the 8th century. The treasury section has gold ornaments from sites across Portugal.

The National Coach Museum has one of the largest collections of horse drawn carriages in the world. Exhibits include coaches made for Portuguese royalty and nobility and some from other parts of the world.
The National Coach Museum is located in a building that was once a riding arena and horse training centre attached to the Belem Palace. It is a renaissance structure designed by the Italian architect, Giacomo Azzolini. The interior is covered with Azulejo tile mosaics by leading Portuguese artists.
The National Coach Museum has an array of gilded coaches used by the Royal family, nobles and visiting dignitaries. Notable carriages include a 16th century coach used by King Philip II to ride into Portugal from Spain, a ceremonial carriage gifted by Pope Clement XI to King John V in 1715 decorated with scenes commemorating Portugal’s military and maritime power and coaches used by the Ducal palace of Vila Vicosa in Southern Portugal. There is also an early decorated carriage showing Lisbon crowned with fame and abundance and a dragon trampling a Moorish crescent. the carriage with bullet holes caused by the successful assassination of King Carlos I in 1908 is also preserved at the museum. Coaches belonging to foreign royal families also form part of the collection including one used by Queen Elizabeth II of Britain on a state visit in the 1950s.