The Museum’s long-term exhibition presents to the visitors, on the -1 floor an archaeological exhibit with traces found here. On floor 0, the memorial to the political prisoners and the building’s history; on floor 1, the characterization of the Portuguese dictatorial regime (1926-1974), its means of repression and oppression (the Censorship, the police and the political courts). On floor 2, the resistance of the oppositions (semi-legal and clandestine), prison, torture, isolation cells. On floor 3, the anti-colonial struggle and the independence movements of liberation, the overthrow of the dictatorship and the 25th of April 1974.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of independence by exploring the museum’s archive, and trying to generate more anti-colonial and anti-racist thinking and action, abolishing all forms of violence.

From 1974 to 1976, in Lisbon and throughout the country, the art of painting took over the walls. To launch a long cry, repeated a hundred times, a thousand times: “Freedom.” O Grito de Abril. There are no traces left of the artistic gesture that covered the walls of Lisbon with dazzling frescoes. In a […]

Guided tour with audio description (AD) of the Aljube Museum’s long-term exhibition Resistance and Freedom for blind and partially sighted people.

A journey in which we will discover some of the places and key moments of April 25 and the revolutionary process of 1974 and 1975.

Guided tour by the organizers of the temporary exhibition “Architects of Freedom”.