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We didn’t have nearly enough time for this museum. Not an enormous collection but we arrived late in the day. Located down in a warehouse district it is very much worth a 5 euro taxi ride to get there. Emerging after dark wasn’t worrisome but hard to find the way to the bus or train. The snuff bottle collection (painted from the inside) and the Chinese opera collection were comprehensive and informative. The rest of the collections only skimmed the surface of many places and cultures in Asia. Still I would have liked to have had more time. …
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Date of experience: December 2019
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If you like Asian Art, take a few hours and go to the Museu do Oriente. It is a small museum, but almost everything in it is a real gem. The snuff bottle collection is one of the best I've seen in the world, and is worth a slow, leisurely look.
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Date of experience: November 2019
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Not sure if this will really please everyone. The collection is a bit erratic - of course it's Portugal-centric, with lots of space for Timor-Leste, India and China and almost nothing about the rest of Asia. Decent explanations of the displays, it's also very English-friendly. My only complaint would be the lighting - I understand the need to preserve things, but a few displays were really hard to fully appreciate since the lighting was just too dim.…
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Date of experience: November 2019
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I went with a friend and we took the combination ticket that involves a visit and a lunch. This turned out to be an excellent idea, since you can visit, lunch, and then carry on visiting.
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Date of experience: November 2019
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Coming here, I didn’t really know what to expect, but then I couldn’t really figure out the point of this museum, even after visiting. It’s a mix of so many things in Asia.... in this vast space on different levels.... which is mostly dark. It got a bit claustrophobic at some point. It does have some very good art collections, but I’d consider this museum to be average on the general scale.…
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Date of experience: May 2019
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