Museums and Palaces

The Portuguese Press Printing Museum is the unique live museum of this sector in Iberian Peninsula. On the Sala Rodrigo Álvares - the gallery for the permanent exhibition - you can find one of the biggest printing press assets in the world. The visitors can work with the dozens of working printing press machines exercising the ancient arts of set up and printing.

In its Temporary Exhibition Gallery you can always find illustrative exhibitions showing the social, educational and cultural importance of press and graphic arts. The Cartoon is one of the vectors of this museum with the International Cartoon Gallery and the PortoCartoon-World Festival. This Gallery is open 365 days per year and there you can find the best of the international cartoon.

The PortoCartoon-World Festival is annual since 1999 and FECO (Federations of Cartoonists’ Organizations) considered it as one of the three most important cartoon contest of the world. Every year and with different themes of international impact we have the participation of hundreds of cartoonists. Their cartoons dignify this universal language that can be understood all around the world. The exhibition is seen by thousands of visitors in our museum and on the several cities where is shown.

Open to any visitor there is also the Virtual Printing Press Museum and the Cartoon Virtual Museum both conceived and maintained by the Portuguese Printing Press Museum which main purpose is to activate the pleasures of culture.