Electricity Museum, Industrial museum in Belém, Portugal
The Electricity Museum is housed in a former power plant with iron frameworks and red brick walls standing along the Tagus River in Belém. The complex preserves original turbines, steam engines, and high-pressure boilers from the height of industrial production.
The Tejo power station began generating electricity in the early 1900s and became the industrial heart of Lisbon for decades. After closure, the facility was repurposed into a museum to preserve and display this industrial past.
The museum shows how electricity changed the way people worked and lived in daily life. You see the old machines that powered generations of Lisbon residents and learn how this technology shaped the city.
The museum occupies the old Central Tejo on Avenida de Brasília in Belém. Visitors enter through the Sala de Exposições, the former low-pressure boiler house, then follow the circuit to the boiler room, the ash room, the experiment room and the water room. The visit is self-guided and the outdoor Praça do Carvão, where coal was once unloaded from the Tagus, links the sections.
The boiler house holds four boilers about 30 metres tall; boiler No. 15 was opened up so visitors can step inside and see its grate belt, Bailey walls, naphtha burners and water-heating tubes. The ash room below, where burnt and unburnt coal ash was collected, shows the heat and dust workers endured.
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