Museu das Comunicações — Attraction in Lisbon

One of the weirdest museum experiences I've had. The museum itself is excellent - someone received a huge government grant to hire excellent people to build good displays about interscontinental ocean cables, the postal service, telecommunication and futuristic houses. The staff is clearly not expecting visitors - understandably since for hours we were the only guests. A lot of the most advertised exhibitions (e.g. houses of the future) are only available during guided tours, tues-fri @4pm...

This is not a place that wants you to come visit it. But if you're adventurous and can ignore disgruntled employees you'll have fun. Be prepared for interactive displays not to work, but that's the case for many museums that only got a grant or build, not to maintain,...

A great museum dedicated to modern communications mainly from the 20th century. They have a great deal os samples and information onmaritime cables as well as telephone comunications. Everything is bilingual in Portuguese and in English. Morse, typewriters, cameras televisions radios mobile phones and TV studios all covered with lots of different machinery some very beautiful. A section on postal communications with sorting machines and old cars and motobikes utilised for delivery, a section on postal stamps with their originals. This spans for three floors last one with a art gallery. It is a gem for people that like to explore and like industrial heritage. Very friendly people and the entrance fee was an almost simbolic 2 Euros!! In a...

A great place full of interesting communication related exhibitions both historic and modern. A lot of interactive things too (though some weren't working, but most were.) If this is your sort of thing, you can happily spend two to three hours exploring. A large amount of the content was Portugal-specific or connecting Portugal into the greater, worldwide communication technology picture, which I had no idea about so that made it even more interesting.

I was there on a Monday around noon and it was quiet. Also a...