Museu da Carris

1300-472 Lisboa - Alcântara, Portugal (Lisboa)

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The CARRIS Museum is a public museum that presents the history of public transport.

Collection

This main museum is organised chronologically into thematic rooms, beginning with the establishment of the company and creation of animal traction vehicles, followed by the appearance of the funiculars, adoption of electric traction vehicles and followed by 20th century innovations. Documents and objects used in daily operation mark many of the exhibits on display. There are various models depicting the trams, buses and funiculars, as well as a reconstructed administrative area and medical centre.

The connection between the different exhibition areas is done by a short trip on a tram of the museum collection dating back to 1901. Its current appearance is that of the 60’s, when it was adapted for touristic services.

The secondary exhibits contains vehicles and workshop machinery, installed in two pavilions, that were inactive, renovated workshops

In the first pavilion the visitor finds a collection of animal and electric traction vehicles renovated from the service starting date and which establishes the link between the end of the 19th century and the end of the 1940s.

This chronological route extends to the second pavilion where apart from the reconstruction of a sub-station and a printing workshop with all its equipment, one finds electric trams and buses which establish the bridge between the beginning of the 50’s to the present day.

It should be noted that from the point of view of a live museum, all these vehicles are in perfect working order making touristic services and rentals possible, marking the important dates of the company’s history to the public.

The Carris Museum continues to invest in new, dynamic initiatives in its space to expose the visitor to a variety of experiences and for this reason, the ‘Sala Multimedia’ (Multimedia Room) was inaugurated.

In this film room visitors can see the ‘Viagens com Vida’, which brings together the unique related experiences of former employees of the company while working for Carris.

The museum also has a shop where the general public can acquire a variety of objects relating to Carris and to its museum.

In the recently inaugurated third section, the visitor comes into contact with different vehicles, from those used at work to public service buses pending restoration.

The visit ends in the Gallery where temporary exhibitions from paintings, sculpture and photography are done.

Apart from the exhibited objects, the museum has set aside various pieces of historical interest from vehicles (buses and trams), numerous workshop parts, old tickets and objects of everyday life of the company.

Museu da Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa é um museu e um centro cultural, que apresenta ao público o passado, presente e futuro dos transportes públicos da cidade de Lisboa e onde convivem exposições temáticas com os mais diversos eventos culturais e empresariais.

Inaugurado a 12 de Janeiro de 1999, o Museu da Carris é parte integrante da Companhia de Carris de Ferro de Lisboa e expõe viaturas, maquetas e documentos e objetos do quotidiano que contam a história do transporte público da capital lisboeta. Integra a Rede Portuguesa de Museus desde 2010.

O Museu da Carris em Lisboa, divulga ao público as suas memórias, que ao longo de mais de um século prestou ao crescimento de Lisboa, cidade que se desenvolveu também graças à evolução dos sistema de transportes públicos.

O seu acervo patrimonial que permite, através de objectos de valor histórico e documental em exposição a divulgação do património, e contribuir para uma função social através do desenvolvimento deste espaço cultural.

O Museu da Carris conduz o visitante a uma viagem no tempo, através de raros documentos e objectos postos à sua disposição: relatórios, fotografias, uniformes, títulos de transporte, equipamento oficinal, eléctricos, autocarros etc.

Em 1997, aquando da alienação de 24 unidades de elétricos não-remodelados, a direcão da Carris colocara já parte da frota histórica de reserva para o então ainda futuro Museu da Carris.

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