{"id":59359,"date":"2026-10-14T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&p=59359"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:40:24","slug":"arte-popular","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/pl\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/arte-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Museu de Arte Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between the Padr\u00e3o dos Descobrimentos and the Tower of Bel\u00e9m stands a low white building with painted panels and sculptures on its walls: the Museum of Popular Art, a survivor of the Portuguese World Exhibition of 1940 that has become the national museum of the country’s folk traditions \u2014 carts and clogs, ceramics, costumes, festas and the everyday arts of the Portuguese countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A museum of a museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pavilion was designed by Veloso Reis Camelo and Jo\u00e3o Sim\u00f5es for the exhibition of 1940, and reopened as a museum in 1948, with its rooms arranged by region \u2014 Minho, Tr\u00e1s-os-Montes, the Beiras, the Alentejo and the Algarve \u2014 and its walls decorated by painters of the time. Closed for years in the 2000s, the museum survived a proposal to turn it into a museum of the language, and reopened to preserve exactly what it was: one of the most complete collections of Portuguese popular art, from the painted wagons of the north to the ceramics of the Alentejo, in a building that is itself an exhibit. A short walk away stand the National Museum of Ethnology<\/a> oraz National Tile Museum<\/a>, completing a day on the Bel\u00e9m\u2013Xabregas axis of Portuguese identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to see<\/h2>\n\n\n\n