Things to do in Lisbon for Free

Besides the gardens, river promenade and belvederes, there is actually other very interesting things you can do and visit in Lisbon for Free. We have walked around the city and spotted these ones:

National Ancient Art Museum
Just a few steps from York House this great Museum is free on Sundays from 10am to 2pm
The National Ancient Art Museum celebrates the Portuguese Routes and sailings around the world; you can jump into Japan, China, India and Africa without leaving the building.
It’s Collection has more that 44 thousand art pieces, dated from 12th to the 19th century, showing art in so many forms… painting, sculpture, silverware, ceramics, textiles, furniture, prints and drawings.

National Coach Museum
Free on Sundays and bank holidays – from 10am to 2pm
A collection that highlights the Portuguese Royal House’s gala vehicles, harnesses and other accessories of cavalry, musical instruments of the Royal Band, uniforms, weapons and symbolic instruments of the Royal House’s staff

Orient Museum
Free entrance on Fridays from 6:00pm to 9:30pm
A diversified cultural heritage of historical, artistic, documental, ethnographic and anthropologic interest dealing not only with popular culture and Oriental religions but also the most varied aspects of the Portuguese presence in Asia throughout over five centuries.

Berardo Collection Museum
Free entrance
Berardo Collection Museum offers an overview, a panorama of the creation of plastic arts in the twentieth century and the beginning of the XXI century, particularly in European and American art. Reflecting all the richness of the history, styles, origins mediums and techniques of the works from the collection, and provides a journey through the modern and contemporary Portuguese artistic creation, focusing on its originality and the place it occupies on the international scene.

Fernando Pessoa House
Free Entrance
Opened in November 1993, the cultural centre was conceived by the Lisbon city Council as a tribute to the writer Fernando Pessoa and his memory; in the city he lived and the area in which he spent the last 15 years of his life, Campo de Ourique.

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