Museu do Fado

The Museu do Fado is a music museum dedicated to Fado, located in the Lisbon neighbourhood of Alfama. The museum is housed in a building that was formerly a pumping station for Lisbon's water supply and has a permanent exhibition and temporary ones, alongside a document centre and an auditorium with regular events. The museum's artistic quality will surprise you, with songs by the greatest Portuguese artists illustrating an art form that Portugal gave to the world. The museum also has a restaurant serving typical Portuguese food and a themed shop where you can spend some time to catch the spirit of saudade (nostalgia). With interactive stations documenting fado's history and audioguides allowing you to listen to dozens of fado songs composed and sung down the decades, you can delve further into history