Museums
What are the top places for art, history, puppets, and more? We’ve done the legwork. You do the rest.
There’s a range of museums sure to tickle even the least ticklish of fancies. Take a gander at your choices and prepare to be inspired.
Note: A lot of museums are closed on Monday, so plan accordingly. Also, the first Sunday of the month, many of them are free. And there are more ways to save on other days.

Lisbon’s Top Museums for Free: The When and How
Gulbenkian, CCB, and others all offer free entry a few hours a month, at least for residents of Portugal — as do many other museums in Lisbon.

Seeing Lisbon with Museum Guides Leading Walking Tours
Until October, four themed walking tours will help people discover how Lisbon was built and experienced over different periods of the city’s history. David Felismino of the Museu de Lisboa

Inside the Portuguese Parliament
The Parliament Building hasn’t always been used for lawmaking,.

Lisbon’s Roaring Twenties: Insights From the Curators at Museu de Lisboa
Their advice? Go more than once. There is so much to discover that you can’t do it all in one shot.

Porn, Tarkovsky, Sea Lions, and Other Free Ways to Self-quarantine with Meaning
It’s official: out of the roughly 7.8 billion humans on the planet, almost 2.6 billion are now on lockdown. That’s a third of the Earth’s population. If you’re reading this,

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
Classical paintings, decorative art, and a splash of iconography