Entroncamento

Museum • Entroncamento, Santarém

At the Entroncamento Railway Complex, the National Railway Museum tells more than 160 years of railway history in Portugal. Its headquarters are in Entroncamento, but the museum has a national scope and includes centres in several parts of the country. The collection brings together around 36,000 objects, from rolling stock, such as locomotives, carriages and wagons, to track, workshop, signalling, station, ticketing, safety, catering, health and documentary material. The route occupies historic buildings linked to the former railway complex, now transformed into exhibition spaces. Among its most evocative pieces are the Royal Train, the Presidential Train, the Steam Workshops and the Locomotive Roundhouse. Created in 2005, the Fundação Museu Nacional Ferroviário Armando Ginestal Machado safeguards this technical and social heritage, where machines, objects and memories show how the train transformed territories, work and everyday life.