Electricity Museum
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- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Lisbon
- Also known as: “Museu da Electricidade”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tejo Power Station and Monastery of the Hieronymites.
Tejo Power Station
Building
Photo: Lucas £ € $ ¥, CC BY 2.0.
The Tejo Power Station was a thermoelectric power plant owned by the Companhias Reunidas de Gás e Electricidade, which supplied power to the city and entire Lisbon region.
Monastery of the Hieronymites
Protected area
Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal. Monastery of the Hieronymites is situated 1 km west of Electricity Museum.
Monument to the Discoveries
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 4.0.
The Monument of the Discoveries is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus River estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India and the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. Monument to the Discoveries is situated 1 km west of Electricity Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belém and Ajuda.
Ajuda
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ajuda is a freguesia and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Ajuda is located in western Lisbon, northeast of Belém and west of Alcântara. The population in 2011 was 15,617.
Electricity Museum
- Categories: technology museum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Belém, Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Electricity Museum” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متحف الكهرباء”
- Catalan: “Museu de l’Electricitat de Lisboa”
- Chinese: “电力博物馆”
- Dutch: “Electricity Museum”
- French: “musée de l’électricité”
- French: “Musée de l’Électricité”
- German: “Elektrizitätsmuseum”
- German: “Museu da Electricidade”
- Hungarian: “Villamosenergia Múzeum”
- Italian: “Museo dell’elettricità”
- Malay: “Muzium Elektrik”
- Polish: “Museu da Electricidade”
- Polish: “Muzeum Elektryczności w Lizbonie”
- Polish: “Muzeum Elektryczności, Lizbona”
- Polish: “Muzeum Elektryczności”
- Portuguese: “Museu da Electricidade”
- Portuguese: “Museu da Eletricidade”
- Romanian: “Muzeul Electricității”
- Russian: “Музей электричества”
- Spanish: “Museo de la Electricidad de Lisboa”
- Spanish: “Museu da Electricidade”
- Swedish: “Elektricitetsmuseet”
- Turkish: “Lizbon Elektrik Müzesi”
- Turkish: “Museu da Eletricidade”
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