Museu do Fado
Fado Museum—Museu do Fado—opened on 25 September 1998, and it sits inside a building with a very different original purpose: Lisbon’s water supply. Work began in 1868 on the pumping station, and in 1869 two steam engines made by the Anglo-French firm E. Windsor & Fils were installed to power the mechanism. That pumping function ran until 1938, after which the structure became a workshop. After the 1974 Carnation Revolution, the building was occupied by the Portuguese Communist Party. Restoration and enlargement then prepared it for its second life as a music museum, inaugurated in 1998. In 2008 the museum was thoroughly renovated, shifting its Permanent Exhibition away from recreating traditional Fado settings toward Fado-related artworks and historical materials—sheet music, videos, music—and hundreds of biographies. Among the works displayed are José Malhoa’s *O fado* and Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro’s *Os fadistas* (1873). …
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