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<\/a><\/p>\nIts opening as a Museum took place in 1990. Ten years later, the Electricity Museum\u2019s buildings and equipment underwent a period of new rehabilitation, to reopen in 2006 fully renovated and with a new discourse and museum proposals. Today, by virtue of its cultural and multidisciplinary nature, visitors can enjoy several events; from the Museum\u2019s permanent exhibit, where the operation and work environment of the old\u00a0Tejo Power Station<\/b>\u00a0is demonstrated using the original machinery, to widely diverse temporary exhibits (painting, sculpture, photography…) as well as educational and playful spaces dealing with the energy theme, with educational games, outdoor solar power demonstrations, theatre, concerts, conferences etc.<\/p>\n
The Electricity Museum is an integral part of the heritage and structure of the\u00a0EDP Foundation<\/b>, which belongs to the\u00a0EDP Group – Energias de Portugal, SA.<\/p>\n The entire complex that makes up the Tejo Power Station constitutes an old\u00a0thermoelectric plant\u00a0that supplied power to\u00a0Lisbon\u00a0and its surrounding area. The building is unique amidst Lisbon\u2019s architectural setting, and is one of the most beautiful examples of Portuguese\u00a0industrial architecture\u00a0from the first half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n The Tejo Power Station was built between 1908 and 1951, thereby undergoing several stages of expansion throughout this period. Its structure follows the western type of\u00a0architecture of iron\u00a0covered with\u00a0brick, which shapes and decorates the facades in\u00a0artistic styles\u00a0that range fromarte-nouveau, in its older sections (low-pressure building), to\u00a0classicism\u00a0in the more contemporary parts (high-pressure building). With the station\u2019s expansion, additional adjoining terrain and buildings were acquired over the years, becoming the great industrial complex it is today, with various cultural functions, always with the\u00a0Tagus\u00a0River, its namesake, in the backdrop.<\/p>\n Due to its state of conservation, the Museum underwent\u00a0restoration\u00a0work between 2001 and 2005 to consolidate its structure, renew its facades and interior machinery and, with a new\u00a0museum project, transform it into what it is today.<\/p>\n The Electricity Museum\u2019s wealth is not limited only to the museum\u2019s visible aspects, but also includes its\u00a0collection. The priority has been to recover elements that are worth exhibiting, through their\u00a0restoration and conservation, as well as the acquisition, preservation and inventory of new pieces from other facilities from all over the country, or from private donors.<\/p>\n At the moment, the Museum houses a large quantity of movable effects on exhibit, such as\u00a0boilers, turbo alternators and\u00a0condensers\u00a0from the 1930-1950\u2019s, as well as collector\u2019s items, such as pieces and equipment dating from the end of the 19th century until modern times. To highlight, the collection of\u00a0household appliances,\u00a0electric machines, pieces and molds of public and private lighting in\u00a0wood\u00a0and iron,\u00a0laboratoryequipment, valves, models etc.<\/p>\n More information:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/museu.da.eletricidade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0Electricity Museum\u00a0(in Portuguese\u00a0Museu da Electricidade) is a\u00a0cultural centre\u00a0that presents the evolution of\u00a0Energy\u00a0with a\u00a0Museum of Science\u00a0and\u00a0Industrial Archaeology\u00a0concept, where themed and experimental exhibits live side by side with a great variety of cultural events. Located in the\u00a0Bel\u00e9m\u00a0area on terrain\u00a0Lisbon\u00a0usurped from the\u00a0Tagus\u00a0river (Tejo\u00a0in Portuguese) at the end of the 19th century, in one of the city\u2019s areas with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3591,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3586\/revisions\/3591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisbonstopover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Architecture<\/span><\/h2>\n
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