Museu da Eletricidade

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Museu da Eletricidade

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Andreagiulia wrote a review Nov. 2019
Naples, Italy33 contributions12 helpful votes
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It seems to be in the past. It’s a real trip in a real place. This was the centre where all Lisbon’s electricity was made. Very very real. There’s a recreative area to make simple experiments, also proper for kids.
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Date of experience: October 2019
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Samuel wrote a review Oct. 2019
Thal, Switzerland4 contributions
The coal-fired power station was awesome! You can walk through the inside of the burner, and explore all (!) parts of the power station. Also it is in a very good state and the building looks very nice. The explanation film is unfortunately not at the beginning of the tour, but with all the explaining charts and the poster you can get a good knowledge about this place by yourself. I would recommend all technology interested people to visit this place! It was my highlight of our 3 day visit.
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Date of experience: October 2019
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Stephanie R wrote a review Oct. 2019
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Definitely worth a visit. Well put together, in a great position next to the MAAT , easy access from Lisbon by bus or ferry
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Date of experience: September 2019
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blountville_TN_2019 wrote a review Sep. 2019
Blountville, Tennessee2 contributions
I was overwhelmed by the quality of the restoration of the boilers, pumps, generators, and whole building structure. Knowing how dirty a functioning power plant can be, it must have been an enormorous task for the restorers to clean, paint, shine, and color code the piping. Signs along the way explained what you were looking at (in English too). Some of the equipment (like pumps & generators) had their tops removed so you could see the perfectly restored internals. There are mannequins placed to show what it was like working there. Being an engineer familiar with power plants, I could have easily spent 3 hours there but my wife was ready to go after 1. After all the equipment, there is a large interactive play area geared for kids (and playful adults) to teach about all things electricity. Even if you don't care about the equipment, you will appreciate the meticulous restoration and the presentation. Oh by the way, your admission ticket gets you into an adjacent building for art displays that change periodically, plus the plant is located along a beautiful walkway beside the busy river.
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Date of experience: September 2019
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Willows Lea wrote a review Sep. 2019
Guildford, United Kingdom241 contributions32 helpful votes
Attracted by the twin offering of a tour of a decommissioned power station, and a modern art installation we dashed in - our main mistake. You need time to appreciate the detailed effort which has gone into making the huge items of machinery and their uses, spread over several floors and halls, accessible to visitors, and we ran out of time. What we did see was fascinating, but I can believe that some interest in machines and human ingenuity involved in electricity generating will be a great help. The art installation was a promotion of "young artists" - and that should have been a warning. Most of it was faddish, a little desperate for ideas, and overly navel-gazing - very much the preserve of youth I suppose, and much was also incomprehensible, not helped by spoken word devices in Portuguese and French for the most part. One single exhibit did leap out - a portrait of a lady in twenties fashion, over a desk with a series of photos, in a moodily lit corner. Very atmospheric, and begging an answer to the question of what had happened to create this.
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Date of experience: August 2019
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