MAAT, Belém

-Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Electricity Museum, Tejo Powerstation, 25th of April Bridge

MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology is a futuristic modern art museum, that opened in 2016, in the western district (former suburb) Belém, facing River Tagus. The modern building has sweeping, curvy lines, that harmonizes with the nearby 25th of April Bridge. It was designed by the British architect Amanda Levete. The museum hosted the Eurovision Song Contest's "Blue Carpet" event. There is also a large old wing, in the former thermoelectric power plant, Tejo Power Station, a huge red brick building with four chimneys on top, built 1908-51. It is now, since 1990, the Electricity Museum (Museu da Electricidade). During our visit there was a cool exhibition about robots in the old powerstation wing. In the new wing there was an exhibition about municipal waste and architectural photography, not by far as interesting as the building itself. Click here to read more about Belém.

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