Museum of the City of Sugar — Local services in Funchal

An interesting museum covering the archaeological finds related to the sugar trade in Madeira and information on the production of sugar. It is free entry, so I am surprised that it is not busy. All the exhibits have signage in both Portuguese and English. There are several replica exhibits which are designed to be handled presumably by non sighted people. There are also guide books in braille available throughout the museum. There is lift access to both floors of the museum and plenty of seating throughout. Overall we spent about an hour here. There was a short film showing the harvest and preparation...

A small place full of history and the entrance ia free, pieces from XV to XIX centuries, archaeological things including coins, smoking pipes, fragments of dishes, sugar molds and more things that where used on the "white gold cycle" in my opinion it will be more apelative if they had something write down on each object explaining what it was for on the ancient days (they have the names). Most part of these objects were found in excavations in...

Very nice, small museum. Admission is free, there no other people when we visited. They offer an audio guide or a large laminated book guide as you enter, we picked the book. There is mostly just the one room, but you get to see the sugar moulds, sugar cones and learn a bit about the history of the island and what's been done by historians to uncover it. It's a welcome break from all the other touristy things in the city, wish it was...