{"id":58142,"date":"2026-10-12T21:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&#038;p=58142"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:26:14","slug":"museu-nacional-de-arqueologia","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/it\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/museu-nacional-de-arqueologia\/","title":{"rendered":"Museu Nacional de Arqueologia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Portugal&#8217;s national museum of archaeology occupies part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/it\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/mosteiro-dos-jeronimos\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Monastero dos Jer\u00f3nimos<\/a> in Bel\u00e9m, a setting as impressive as the collections it holds. Its rooms gather objects from across the country and beyond, tracing human presence in Portugal from prehistory to the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A national collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum was founded in 1893 by the scholar Jos\u00e9 Leite de Vasconcelos and installed in the former monastic buildings of the Jer\u00f3nimos. Over more than a century it has assembled one of the most important archaeological collections in the country, from prehistoric tools to Roman mosaics and Islamic objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prehistoric and protohistoric collections from across Portugal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roman archaeology, including mosaics, sculpture and everyday objects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Egyptian antiquities and other collections from the Mediterranean world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gold and jewellery, and the museum&#8217;s important collection of epigraphy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visiting the museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum is at Pra\u00e7a do Imp\u00e9rio, Bel\u00e9m, Lisbon, in the Jer\u00f3nimos Monastery. Opening hours and tickets are published on the official website, so check before your visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visitor information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museunacionalarqueologia.gov.pt\/\" rel=\"noopener\">museunacionalarqueologia.gov.pt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, by Jose Luis Filpo Cabana, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal&#8217;s national archaeology museum, in the Jer\u00f3nimos Monastery in Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58137,"parent":12301,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074],"tags":[936,560],"attraction-categ":[1058],"localidade":[94],"content-type":[],"grupo-de-experiencias":[],"experiencia-tipo":[],"gestao":[1102],"regioes_turisticas_term":[223],"class_list":["post-58142","to-visit","type-to-visit","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","tag-lisbon","tag-museum","attraction-categ-museums-art-galleries","localidade-lisbon","gestao-56-publicado","regioes_turisticas_term-lisbon-and-surroundings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - 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