Museu da Carris

Stepping into the Carris Museum is like understanding Lisbon in motion. Housed in Santo Amaro Station, Carris’s first station, the museum preserves the memory of a company founded in 1872, intriguingly in Rio de Janeiro, before it transformed the way the capital expanded and overcame its hills. Here, the history of public transport meets the history of the city itself: from horse-drawn streetcars to the funiculars, from the electrification of the network to twentieth-century buses. Among photographs, uniforms, tickets, machinery and historic vehicles, visitors follow the technical, social and urban changes that shaped everyday life in Lisbon. One of the most memorable moments is the journey between the two exhibition areas on a tram from 1901, which gives the visit a rare sense of authenticity. More than a transport museum, this is a place where Lisbon can be seen growing along its rails.