Museu da Cidade do Açucar, The Museum The Sugar City in Funchal

Museu da Cidade do Açucar, The Museum The Sugar City in Funchal

Intended to constitute itself as a memory identification space of sugar production and technology of Madeira, in its two most important cycles in the XV-XVI and XIX. The Museum The Sugar City makes known to visitors the cultural consequences of economic cycles. The Museum The Sugar City wants to establish itself as reserves in Funchal […]

Photographia – “Vicentes” Museum, in Funchal

Photographia – “Vicentes” Museum, in Funchal

The Photographia – Museu “Vicentes” is installed in the old “studio” of Vicente Gomes da Silva and has, among its collection, sets, cameras, furniture “studio”, frames with original photographs, books on photographic techniques and valuable photographic archive with about 800,000 negatives, datable between 1876 and 1982, as well as having a nucleus for the Cinema. […]

Museu da Baleia, The Whale Museum, in Funchal

Museu da Baleia, The Whale Museum, in Funchal

To preserve the heritage and the historical record of whaling in Madeira, to produce information and spread understanding of cetaceans and the marine environment through an environmentally responsible integrated policy, based on museology, education and scientific research, to contribute to bringing people closer to the sea. Address: Caminho da Pedra de Eira, 9200-031 Caniçal Phone: +351 291 […]

The Embroidery, Tapestry and Wickercraft Work Museum, in Funchal

The Embroidery, Tapestry and Wickercraft Work Museum, in Funchal

In this museum seeks to recreate the environment of Romanticism, a house of Madeira. It is intended above all to reference the introduction and importance of embroidery in island living from the nineteenth century. The presence of pieces of furniture of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, the end of the Victorian style of […]

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