Museums and Palaces

Located in the Palacete Visconde de Trevões, the Museu da Memória de Matosinhos is a space where Matosinhos past and present meet, from the beginning to the present day, with a markedly interactive museographic design, using new technologies.

It is the museum's mission to value the historical and heritage memory of the territory of Matosinhos, crossing it with the individual memories of its inhabitants, aiming at strengthening identity and promoting citizenship.

The entire museological discourse is based on the memories and valences of the building itself and its first owner - Emídio Ló Ferreira, on the memories of the territory of Matosinhos, its places, its people and its main activities. It lives off archeological, artistic and documental materials, but also on multimedia and interactivity, allowing the visitor to freely explore various contents, as well as take a virtual trip through 15 emblematic places in Matosinhos, through special 360° glasses.

In addition to works of art and objects of historical value, the museum pays special attention to people, revealing the testimonies of Matosinhos citizens from various areas of society. On the 2nd floor, the visitor has the possibility to record his own testimony on video to integrate the Museum of Memory of Matosinhos.

It has a room for temporary exhibitions. The temporary exhibition “Matosinhos. Place and Memory”, centered on photographic memories and on the dialogue between the past/present duality of some notes of the urban and industrial landscape of Matosinhos and Leça da Palmeira, in the last 25 years, through the lens of Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico and designer Nuno Leal.

The operation of this museum space is ideally designed as a work in progress, a continuous cycle, subject to permanent updating, putting into practice a vocation of openness to community participation.