Electricity Museum

The Electricity Museum in the Lisbon district is housed in a historic riverside power station and presents the technological and social history of electricity in Portugal. The museum occupies large industrial interiors where machinery and installations are displayed alongside explanatory exhibits.

Exhibition highlights include preserved turbines and generators, interpretive displays on the development of electrical networks and hands-on exhibits about power generation and distribution. The building itself is an example of early 20th-century industrial architecture and contributes to the museum experience.

The power station was converted to museum use after its operational life ended, preserving large-scale equipment and factory interiors for public interpretation. The site hosts both permanent collections and temporary exhibitions on science, technology and industrial heritage.

Geographically the museum sits in the western part of greater Lisbon on the Tagus riverside in an area known for industrial heritage and cultural sites, within easy reach of the city’s central districts.

• Setting: Housed in an early 20th-century thermal power station building on Lisbon's riverside, the museum combines industrial architecture with technological exhibits.

What to See #

• Turbine hall: The historic turbine hall housed in the former Central Tejo power station, where large industrial machines and generators are displayed in situ.
• Exhibition galleries: Permanent and temporary exhibition spaces showing the history of electrification and technological displays aimed at general audiences.