Carris Museum
In the old Santo Amaro depot, the story of Lisbon’s trams and buses since 1872, with a ride in a 1901 tram between the sections.
Carris Museum
The Carris Museum tells the story of Lisbon's public transport in the old Santo Amaro depot in Alcântara. The Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa was founded on 18 September 1872 in Rio de Janeiro, and in 1874 it began building the Santo Amaro depot here, with stables, coach houses, workshops and granaries for the first horse-drawn cars; on 31 August 1901 it launched its electric tram service. The museum opened on 12 January 1999. The first section traces the company's history through documents and small objects, from horse traction to the Lavra, Glória and Bica funiculars and the Santa Justa Lift, through the electrification of the network and the 20th century. The second fills some two thousand square metres of former workshop halls with historic trams and buses, the old power station and the printing works founded in 1878 – and every vehicle on display is fit to leave and run on the streets again. Between the two sections, visitors travel in a 1901 tram, refurbished in the 1960s and decorated by Pedro Leitão.
Located at: Museu da Carris
Address: Rua 1.º de Maio, 101-103, 1300-472 Lisboa
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-18:00 (closed on Sundays and public holidays)
Phone: +351 213 613 087
Coordinates: 38.7020050, -9.1806368
Buses: 714, 727, 732, 751, 756, 720, 760, 742, 738
Tram: 15E, 18E
Train: Cascais Line, Alcântara-Mar Station
Opened: 1999 (27 years)
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