Open: Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (last entry at 5:30 pm)

Av. da Índia 136, 1300-300 Lisbon

Opened in 2015, the new National Coach Museum was designed by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2006, in partnership with Portuguese architect Ricardo Bak Gordon. More than a museum, the project functions as an urban infrastructure, offering public space to the city of Lisbon.
Two concerns thus converged: the imperative need to increase the exhibition area and its technical support infrastructure, but also the need to create amenities for the public of what is one of the most visited museums in the country.
The National Coach Museum houses a unique collection of gala and leisure vehicles from the 16th to 19th centuries, most of which came from the Portuguese Royal Household, in addition to vehicles from the Church's assets and private collections. It presents an excellent collection that allows visitors to understand the technical and artistic evolution of animal-drawn transport, used by European courts until the emergence of the automobile.

Royal Riding School (Picadeiro Real)

On May 23, 1905, the Royal Coach Museum was opened in Lisbon, an initiative of Queen D. Amélia d’Orleães e Bragança, a princess of France who married D. Carlos I, the future King of Portugal, in 1886.
The location chosen to house the world's first carriage museum was the hall of the former Royal Riding School, built by the Italian architect Giacomo Azzolini in 1787, adapted for this purpose by the court architect, Rosendo Carvalheira, with the collaboration of the painters José Malhoa and Conceição e Silva, who together achieved an almost perfect harmony between the space and the exhibition of the gala vehicles.
It was a great success, but the lack of space soon made itself felt and it was the queen herself who commissioned a new project in 1906 to expand the Museum and be able to display the other vehicles of the Royal Household stored in the stables of various palaces.
After the establishment of the Republic on October 5, 1910, the Museum's collection grew with the arrival of a set of coaches and carriages from the former Royal Household and vehicles from the church's assets. In 1911, the museum was renamed the National Coach Museum. In 1944, a new hall designed by architect Raul Lino was opened, which allowed more vehicles to be displayed, but not the entire collection, as the lack of space continued to be felt. In memory of the excellent work of protecting and promoting this horse-drawn heritage, initiated by Queen D. Amélia, a visitable exhibition center with carriages and carriages, the royal family's painting gallery, as well as a set of cavalry accessories, remains in the Royal Riding School space.

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