Source: aicep Portugal Global

The museum is one of the 50 most relevant museums in the last 40 years in Europe. Portimão’s canning factory museum has been listed among the 50 most influential museums in Europe, in the book “Revisiting Museums of Influence”, by English publisher Routledge Area Studies.

In 2018 it was classified national treasure. The mosaic, found in private works in a house next to the Faro Railway Station, may have been the floor of a public building, suggesting that Roman Faro had a commercial area beyond the old city centre.

For more information: www.museudeportimao.pt