Museum of Transport and Communication — Attraction in Porto

Absolutely not worth it unless you like being verbally chastised by rude and dienfranchised staff, and then paying to look at clapped out 10 former portuguese presidential limousines (there's a gorgeous 1966 S 600 and a rare Packard straight8 and a Vanden Plas/Austin Princess and a Rolls, but the rest are what you'd see for airport taxis in the 90s. A Citroën CX, several pedestrian Mercedes and a very tired audi A8. There. I saved you the time and effort. You're welcome) . Maybe there's a pile of the museum closed or off limits (there was a Mercedes sprinter van convention on - which leads me to believe this place is more used for commercial events than as an actual functional museum) but as an attraction or destination this place comes up waaay short for the admission price. There was also a communications exhibit that was a right hot mess with broken displays, inscrutable placards, and disjointed themed presentations. Save your € and go to the port wine museum or the photography institute, or pretty much anywhere else: this place is a crushing disappointment overall, and deserves a hard pass in this town with so much...

Nothing, complete chaos, the website is not honest, the communication part is lacking and majority of other areas are in renovation. A very customer unfriendly reception desk excelled in disinformation and a negative attitude against visitors. Others were also fruitless searching for the exhibition, probably also misguided by the lack of the reception to understand left and right. I had explicitly asked were the cars exhibition was (first floor left) and the communication part (second floor right) and found it totally unacceptable after searching in vain and returning to the reception desk together with other visitors that she claimed that she had warned that the communication part was missing. Unbelievable, asked my money back and left. How can you suggest to be an museum and misinform visitors...

This was quite an interesting place to visit during my stay in Porto. The conversion of the warehouse into an events centre and museum was pretty cool, even keeping the old rail tracks along the floors, as well as the very industrial architectural style. They had an exhibition of the old Presidential Cars on display when I was there, and it was very cool as a micro-display of the evolution of the car. The library which now showcases the old documents is very nice as well. If you have an hour to use during the day while you're along the waterfront, this is a good place to visit. It is simple, and some of the rooms will be closed off for other events, but it's a neat piece of Porto's history to...