Best museums in Porto: prices, hours and which are closed on Mondays

💡 The Short Version: The Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis is €10, the Museu do Porto sites are €4 and free on Sundays, Serralves is €24, the World of Wine Day Pass €35 and the FC Porto museum with the stadium €25. On Mondays the Soares dos Reis, the Museu do Porto and World of Discoveries are closed, and the FC Porto museum opens at 14:30. The Soares dos Reis’s free entries and Serralves’s free Sunday are for residents of Portugal only. Or book a tour: the FC Porto museum and stadiumad is listed by the museum itself, at €25 for the full tour (GetYourGuide).

The museums compared

Prices are the adult rate, from each museum’s own site.

Tours worth paying for

FC Porto’s listing is the museum’s own. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

FC Porto museum and stadium

From €17 for the museum only; €25 with the stadium · 1.5 to 2 hours · 4.6 stars from 4,684 reviews

FC Porto: Museum Tour with Champions League Trophiesad is listed by the FC Porto Museum. The “from €17” is the museum-only option, which the club sells only on match days, the eve of UEFA match days, days of major events or facilities maintenance; the stadium tour is €25. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

World of Discoveries

From €18 · 1 hour · 4.4 stars from 3,366 reviews

Porto: World of Discoveries Interactive Museumad is the interactive exhibition on the Portuguese voyages of discovery, with hours from its own site.

Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis

Rua de D. Manuel II 44 · €10 · closed Mondays

Founded in 1833, it is the first public art museum in Portugal, in the 18th-century neoclassical Carrancas Palace. Its collection of more than 18,000 pieces covers paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, furniture and glass, and one key work is O Desterrado (The Exiled) by António Soares dos Reis. Tickets are €10; the museum is open Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00 with last entry at 17:30, and closed on Mondays, 1 January, Easter Sunday, 1 May, 24 June and 25 December. Free entry, up to 52 times a year, is for Portuguese citizens and residents with a Citizen Card. Large bags and umbrellas are not allowed in, and free lockers are provided. The museum is next to the Palácio de Cristal and 20 minutes’ walk from São Bento station, and road access depends on the Pink Line works. See the museum’s visit page.

A room in the Carrancas Palace, home of the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis. Photo: Joseolgon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Museu do Porto

Several sites · €4 a site · free on Sundays

The city’s museum has sites across Porto, among them the Casa do Infante at Rua da Alfândega 10 and the Casa Guerra Junqueiro at Rua de Dom Hugo 32. Each site is €4 (€2 for over-65s and the unemployed), or €8 for a Museu da Cidade ticket valid at the sites for seven consecutive days. They are open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 17:30, and closed on Mondays, public holidays, 24 and 31 December. They are free on Sundays, and on days such as International Museum Day. See museudoporto.pt.

FC Porto museum and Estádio do Dragão

Via Futebol Clube do Porto · €25 · the stadium tour is not guided

The museum and the stadium tour are one ticket: €25 for adults, €20 for ages 65 and over and €13 for ages 5 to 12; children up to 4 are free. The museum is open Mondays from 14:30 to 19:00 and Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 19:00; the stadium tour leaves on the hour, from 15:00 to 18:00 on Mondays and 11:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Sunday, and you choose your time at reception. There are no stadium tours on match days or the eve of UEFA match days. The museum is closed on 25 December and 1 January, open until 15:00 on 24 December and 16:00 on 31 December. Both tours are self-guided, with an app and audio guides in five languages. The Estádio do Dragão Metro station, on lines A, B, E and F, is at the door. See fcporto.pt.

Museu do Carro Eléctrico

Alameda Basílio Teles 51, Massarelos · €8 · closed Mondays

The tram museum is in Massarelos, on the Douro riverfront. Adults pay €8; ages 6 to 18, students and over-65s €4; a family of one adult and one child €8. It is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00, with last admission 30 minutes before closing, and closed on 25 December and 1 January. It closes at 13:00 on 24 December and on Easter Sunday. A tram ticket from STCP carries a discount at the museum. See museudocarroelectrico.pt and Porto’s historic trams.

The Museu do Carro Eléctrico, in the former Massarelos power station. Photo: Vysotsky, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

World of Discoveries

A few metres from the Douro · closed Mondays

An interactive exhibition on the Portuguese voyages: relive the conquest of Ceuta, face the giant Adamastor, go inside a ship and smell the spices. It stands a few metres from the Douro and the Alfândega do Porto. Hours are Tuesday to Friday 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30) and weekends and holidays 10:00 to 19:00 (last entry 18:30); on 24 December the last entry is at 13:00 and on 31 December at 15:30. It is closed on Mondays, 25 December and 1 January. See worldofdiscoveries.com.

Casa da Música

Rem Koolhaas’s concert hall · tours only

Casa da Música opened in April 2005, after Porto and Rotterdam were European Capitals of Culture in 2001. The guided tour lasts about an hour, in English by session booked online, and costs €12 (€5 for ages 13 to 18; children under 12 free with a paying adult). The open tour is €10, between 10:00 and 17:30 subject to availability, and you go round on your own. Some rooms depend on the day’s programme. A combined ticket with Serralves is €28.80. See casadamusica.com.

Casa da Música seen from the street. Photo: Aleksandr Zykov, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Practical information

• Monday plan: Serralves, World of Wine, the Torre dos Clérigos and the FC Porto museum (from 14:30) are open. The Soares dos Reis, the Museu do Porto, World of Discoveries and the tram museum are not.
• Sunday plan: the Museu do Porto sites are free.
• Free days for residents only: the Soares dos Reis’s 52 free entries and Serralves’s first Sunday.
• Last entry: 30 minutes before closing at the Clérigos and the tram museum, 17:30 at the Soares dos Reis, 17:30 at World of Discoveries on weekdays.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: a Monday. Check the day before you walk to a museum.

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