MAAT - Tejo Power Station
MAAT’s quiet force is that it repurposes a working power station—Tejo Power Station—so you experience Lisbon’s electricity history as built environment rather than static exhibits. The Electricity Museum runs along the perimeter of the old thermoelectric plant that illuminated the city for more than four decades. It opened as a museum in 1990, then entered a rehabilitation phase a decade later, reopening in 2006 with fully renovated buildings and a new museum discourse. The Tejo Power Station itself was built between 1908 and 1951, expanding through multiple stages to become a large industrial complex tied to the Tagus River. Its architecture follows a western-style iron framework covered with brick, producing facades that shift from Art Nouveau in the older low-pressure sections to classicism in the later high-pressure building. …
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