Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti (Work Museum)

Learn about the traditional trades of the region of Setúbal in the Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti.

Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti
© Câmara Municipal de Setúbal

The Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti (Work Museum), award-winner as the Museum of the Year in 1998 by the Council of Europe, is located in an old tinned food factory that has keep all its machinery, in the city of Setúbal, Portugal.

Here you can learn how sardines are put in cans, and a thousand secrets about the fishing. You can contemplate different representations of the traditional trades of the region.

The museum also shows a shop date back in 1920 that was carried en masse from Lisbon.

More information:

Location:

Largo Defensores da República, Setúbal.

Ticket price:

1,20€.

Opening hours:

From Tuesday to Saturday from 9:30 to 18:00.

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Why "Portugal Travel"?

Portugal Travel is an organization of Portuguese agencies whose objectives are:

✓ To make Portugal, its culture and its heritage known.
✓ To promote sustainable tourism.

In collaboration with:

Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril

Turismo de Portugal