Macau Museum

Museum of the Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre

Created by Decree-Law no. 85/95 of 28 April to preserve the memory of the Portuguese presence in the Far East, and in Macau in particular, the Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre is a public institute devoted to research, teaching and the dissemination of knowledge about Macau as a platform between Portugal and China, and between Europe and Asia. Housed on Rua da Junqueira, where it opened in 1999, it brings together a library, an education service and a museum of more than 3,500 pieces focused on the study of Luso-Chinese relations. The museum is organised in two complementary sections. The first, devoted to the historical and cultural condition of Macau in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, follows the beginnings of the encounter between the Portuguese and Ming China, the rise of the port city between Europe, the Indian Ocean and East Asia, the exchanges of foods, instruments and measures that passed through it, and the role of the College of São Paulo, the first European university college in China. The second, the Chinese Art Collection, spans more than five thousand years of history and art, from Neolithic ceramics, terracottas and bronzes to blue-and-white, famille verte and famille rose porcelain, by way of lacquerware, fans, silver, ivories, costumes, coins, opium-smoking objects and paintings of views of Praia Grande Bay. The collector António Sapage made an important contribution to the collection.

Located at: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau
Address: Rua da Junqueira, 30, 1300-343 Lisboa
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00, last entry 17:30 (closed on Mondays, 1 January, 1 May, Good Friday, Easter Sunday and 25 December)
Phone: +351 213 617 570
Coordinates: 38.700849, -9.1824432
Buses: 720, 756, 714, 727, 732, 751, 73B, 742, 760, 724
Tram: 15E
Train: Cascais Line, Alcântara-Mar Station
Opened: 1999 (27 years)