Scientific and Cultural Macao Museum
The Scientific and Cultural Macao Museum, or *Museu do Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau*, is Lisbon’s main museum dedicated to Chinese artefacts and artworks, built to document Sino-Portuguese relations. It opens on a founding date of 30 November 1999, and its collections run well beyond general display: the museum holds over 3,500 works of art. The museum is organized into two linked floors. On the ground floor, you move through Macau’s historical and cultural condition in the 16th and 17th centuries, tracing how Portugal’s encounter with Ming China helped shape the port city that became Macau. Three themes anchor that story—*Portugal and China: The Beginnings of an Encounter*, the *Port City* as a service network between East Asia and the Atlantic world, and *The Order of Transfers*, which points to ecological and technological exchanges traveling through Macau. …
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