National Sports Museum
In the Palácio Foz, the museum of Portuguese sporting history, closed indefinitely owing to works on the building.
National Sports Museum – Palácio Foz
Housed in the Palácio Foz on Praça dos Restauradores, the National Sports Museum was inaugurated on 12 July 2012, the year Portugal celebrated a hundred years of taking part in the Olympic Games. Run by the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth (IPDJ), it grew out of a public invitation to the sports federations to share the heritage left by athletes and by the various sports. It displays evidence of the history and culture of sport and of its material and scientific development: Cristiano Ronaldo's football boots, Nelson Évora's spikes and a penny-farthing, forerunner of the bicycle, are among the items in its holdings. The collection numbers some 18,000 catalogued objects, including technical equipment, cups, medals and diplomas, commemorative objects, posters and programmes, photographs and documents, toys and sport-themed works of art, and part of the catalogue can be consulted online. In 2019 the museum also opened the Jamor Interpretation Centre, in the Swimming Pool Complex of the Jamor National Sports Centre, devoted to the development of that complex. Owing to conservation works on the Palácio Foz, the museum's premises at Restauradores are closed indefinitely; in the meantime the IPDJ suggests a visit to the Jamor Interpretation Centre.
Located at: Museu Nacional do Desporto (IPDJ)
Address: Palácio Foz, Praça dos Restauradores, 1250-187 Lisboa
Opening hours: Closed indefinitely owing to conservation works on the Palácio Foz
Phone: +351 210 540 340
Coordinates: 38.7155622, -9.142174
Buses: 709, 711, 746, 783, 19B, 732, 736, 759, 722, 744
Tram: 24E
Metro: Restauradores (Blue), Rossio (Green)
Train: Sintra Line, Rossio Station
Opened: 2012 (14 years)
