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Carris Museum

The Carris Museum, in the Alcântara neighbourhood, occupies the old Santo Amaro Depot and shows the history of Lisbon's public transport across three spaces. The first, devoted to history, covers in five rooms the founding of the company, horse-drawn traction, the funiculars and the Santa Justa lift, electrification, and the evolution of the company and of the metro, with documents, photographs and objects such as uniforms and work instruments; it also recreates an administrative office and a mid-20th-century medical post, and displays instruments of the Carris band. The second space, in workshop halls of about 2,000 m², brings together original vehicles from horse-drawn traction to buses of the second half of the 20th century, as well as a rebuilt electrical substation and a typography workshop. The third shows vehicles undergoing restoration. The journey between the rooms is made aboard a 1901 tram remodelled in the 1960s and decorated by Pedro Leitão. The museum also has a multimedia room with testimonies from former employees and a shop with publications and objects related to Carris.

Things to do at Carris Museum: 17 missions

• Discover the Printing HouseLearn about the print workshops created in 1878 with the aim of printing banknotes.
• Explore Room 4Observe numerous objects and documents representative of the evolution of Carris, its vehicles and its network throughout the 20th century.
• Explore Room 2Observe the miniature lift, a model designed and built in 1892, alongside pieces from the Lavra, Glória and Bica funiculars and the Santa Justa Lift.
• Explore the Health ServicesObserve the recreation of a mid-20th-century medical post with the instruments from the Medical Post at Santo Amaro Station.
• Explore Room 3See historic documents and pieces related to the modernisation of the Carris transport network.
• Explore Room 1See numerous historic documents and books devoted to the founding of CARRIS and to animal traction.
• Enjoy Administrative areaEnjoy Administrative area during your visit to Museo de Carris.
• Visit Hall 1Discover the vehicles on display, from animal traction to the late 1940s.
• Explore Room 5Discover the room devoted to the Carris Employees' Brass Band.
• Ride the Museum TramTravel between the Museum's different sites on a 1901 tram refurbished in the 1960s and decorated by Pedro Leitão.
• Observe the GeneratorSee the partial reconstruction of the panels of the former Arco do Cego substation and other minor machinery.
• Observe the Restoration of Space IIIObserve the work and passenger vehicles awaiting restoration in Space III of the Museu da Carris.
• Visit Hall 2Observe the vehicles of the second half of the 20th century, including the buses.
• Explore the Space II CollectionWalk through the second space, located in disused workshop halls and covering an area of about 2000 m2.
• Observe the Carris Brass BandSee the instruments and a chronology of the Carris Employees' Brass Band, founded in 1929.
• Explore Space I HistoryObserve documents and small objects that show the historical evolution of Carris and the Lisbon Metro.
• Visit Museo de CarrisVisit Museo de Carris in Lisbon and get to know the place on the ground.

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