Best places: Museums in Ovar, Portugal

High-tech soccer museum with multimedia displays, FC Porto memorabilia & stadium tours.

👍 Learnt more how porcelain is manufactured and the time it takes to decorate. Beautiful artifacts on display and educational at the same time.

👍 The museum indoors was really really nice and well done. We spent almost 2hours inside reading and looking at everything closely. The stuff who works there was very friendly and helpful, he explained many things to us and answered all the questions we had. He was professional and super friendly. The...

👍👍 Great museum, friendly staff and well made exhibition. Highly recommend. I learned new things and liked how they show what the modern world has inherited from a people from 2000 years ago. I also liked the exhibits you can touch and try out.

A spiral staircase climbs the inside of this 76m-high baroque bell tower, offering city-wide views.

Cluster of museums, restaurants & bars in cellars, telling the story of Porto's port wine industry.

Century-old vessel that's served as a supply ship, floating hospital & ice breaker, now a museum.

Medieval residence with period interiors plus a museum including noteworthy tapestries & porcelain.

Local maritime history, including cod fishing, is the focus at this modern museum with live cod.

Religious art museum in a 15th-century convent with a baroque church & tomb of Princess Saint Joan.

👍👍 Enchanting nature spot with wonderful walking ways and varied landscape. Peaceful and beautiful. We were here in winter and the place still was so full of life. I recommend walking around and picnicking at one of the sites with tables and benches. There are birds and the stream provides for a good a...

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😐 It’s not a museum where you learn and wander to discover: it’s an extravagant accumulation of artifacts, from minerals to fossils to traditional African arts to an edifying exhibit about Gandhi. You are rushed through tunnels and rooms stuffed with all these things with little context and no time to...

👍👍 Lovely museum! All exhibitions are very well kept. Huge variety of all machines used before. Strongly recommend. The staff is very friendly, there is place for the kids as well. I think times to time their organized other exhibition as well. When we were there was photos and embroidery.... You feel...

👍👍 We had a nice tour experienced today, the museum and wine cellar tour was interesting. Our tour guide was the guy with eyeglasses (I forgot his name) he did explain clearly the necessary information regarding Ramos Pinto, he gave us enough time to look around, and to ask questions even though he’s a...

👍👍 Nothing like "living history" had no idea of ​​the enormous size and cargo space this type of vessel had. Seeing up close and thinking how it was possible to build this type of boat with technologies available in the 1500s is truly amazing. It's worth the visit and it's also very affordable. The c...

👍👍 Lovely place! We went to plant some trees as part of the “Futuro” project, and after we had a picnic by the water mills. We met one of the group members that restaures the mills and he told us a bit of the process they did. The mills are breathtaking and the whole area with the river and a lot of...

Baroque church with a marble altarpiece & a 75-m bell tower that is a symbol of Porto.

Huge, 19th-century landmark building with rooms for private events, a restaurant & guided tours.