Ribeira Grande Municipal Museum

Dry nice visit

We were guided to this museum by the tourist information office. The museum is in a former manor house, and has displays of the various occupations from yesteryear. The gem is a mechanical Nativity ...

Charming Little Museum

The museum is small and charming - particularly the dioramas of everyday life and were certainly made with love by a local priest years ago. Incredibly detailed and well preserved. Enjoyed the ceramic...

Quick visit

We only had a short time to look around. What a beautiful little town and gem of a museum. Visited out of the main season in March but dropped in very lucky with the weather.

Worth a visit if you have the time

Admission is €2 or €1 for those over 65. The Museu Municipal showed old artifacts of different trades: printing, shoemaking, weaving, winemaking, pharmacy, etc. The signs are in both Portuguese and E...

Very interesting collection of local artifacts

We're glad we decided to visit this museum while touring Ribeira Grande. Nice collection of azulejos, and other artifacts of early life here. The highlight for us were the mechanical dioramas: dozens ...