Getting to know the Museum in an educational and interactive way
Tours of the Museum are organized according to the age of the participants and the types of discourse used on tours are varied and personalized. The tours are also different depending on the desired itinerary and the exhibition program on the date of the visit. On average, the visit lasts 1 hour and includes the permanent and/or temporary exhibition, a tram tour and the educational material, aimed at interacting with the groups.
The workshops start with a game-tour; however, the questions are related to the theme of the workshop that will be developed, thus allowing a direct link between the Museum’s exhibition/collection and the activity. Different experiences are provided and different themes within the Museum’s area of expertise are addressed. Interdisciplinary courses are proposed, targeting different age groups and training areas.
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> Specific tours and activities are also available.
List of Didactic Tours
Is it possible to tell the story of the Museum through sounds and movements? That is the objective of our tour, in which we will discover, invent and recreate the sound of each object accompanying it with movements. Starting from a box that transforms into an American Car, a Tram, and even fits a Double-Decker Bus, we’ll learn what rails are and test the maximum speed of horses — all without ever going off the rails!
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
Once upon a time… a visit to the Carris Museum through a giant book! With this interactive object, we explore a museum tour filled with fantasy, drawings, images, and engagement. The big CARRIS book complements the guided tour by proposing the appreciation of history as an imaginary space. The group is invited, in a dynamic and participatory way, to connect the museum’s collection with an illustrated narrative of the route, objects, and documented facts.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
“The Path to Sustainability” tour explores the sustainable processes and solutions developed by CARRIS over the past 150 years. Focusing on innovation and its consequences, the visit reflects on decisions made across different eras — from the creation of rail transport to the replacement of the American Car with the Electric Tram. From the choice of the Bus and the reduction of the Tram network in the 1970s, to the investment in the Articulated Tram in the 1990s — still today the CARRIS surface transport with the highest passenger capacity. Up to the present day, we highlight CARRIS’s sustainability decisions.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
Aimed at the senior public, this tour is more comprehensive than the others, a greater number of the Museum’s pieces being described. At the end of the tour, sitting on a bus or on a tram stop, the participants are invited to share their memories based on images from the archive and the Museum’s collection.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 seniors or more | 4€
Group < 15 seniors | 6,5€
List of Game-Tours
May the best team win — or at least the most attentive one! The Quiz Visit is a challenge tour where participants are divided into two teams to see who pays the most attention to the story told along the museum tour. At the end, the teams are tested in a fun quiz, with a certificate awarded and content adapted for different audiences.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
What exactly is a bogie? In this game-based tour, we’ll follow clues to discover the answer and explore all the parts of an electric tram in detail. At the end, we’ll open a hidden trapdoor that gives us a whole new perspective on the tram’s bogie and how these vehicles are built.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
There’s a lying bus at the Carris Museum — or so the story goes — because it’s in disguise. There’s also a triple-decker bus and another that looks like it’s been painted over. In this game-based visit, we’ll get to know the buses that love to trick the visitors at the Carris Museum.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
List of Staged Visits
The clock strikes the hour, and two CARRIS staff leave their vehicles at the station to take us on a very special journey through the Carris Museum!
In this theatrical tour, visitors are welcomed and guided by two uniformed CARRIS workers — a tramdriver, bus driver or conductor — who lead the group through the museum while telling the story of the Carris Company in a lively dialogue with each other and the audience. Along the way, they punch tickets, reveal vehicle tricks, and act out funny and surprising scenes from daily life on public transport.
Price (unit value):
Group of 20 participants or more | 5€
List of Guided Tours
Standard guided tour by an Educational Service monitor, with no specific teaching material. It is intended for the general public, being tailored according to the age of the group. Varied and personalized types of discourse are used. On average, a tour lasts 1 hour.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 persons or more | 3,5€
Group < 15 persons | 6€
The Carris Museum welcomes groups from different countries, either tourists or bilingual education students. We currently have tours in English, French and Spanish.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 persons or more | 4€
Group < 15 persons | 6€
Schedule a tour of Museu da Carris for your family! We have created a special ticket with you in mind. A game-tour guided by a monitor from our Educational Service and designed for kids and adults. Come and create family memories in complete safety!
Price (unit value):
Family group up to 6 persons | 35€
List of Workshops
Cardboard tubes, bottle caps, stencils, LEGO bricks, ropes? In this workshop, we paint with everything except brushes! Designed for preschoolers, the activity begins with a visit to the museum. After a tram ride to Nucleus II, where the oldest buses and trams are on display, kids are invited to explore color and technique using materials found in everyday life — just like in the CARRIS workshops. Here, the tables become canvases, and anything goes — as long as you don’t use a brush!
Minimum number: 15 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h (sound visit + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €6
GGroup of < 15 children | €8
“This is not a workshop!” Hmm… Then what? It is a fun game that can only be played after visiting the Museum and combing through all its transport vehicles! Each team has to look for hidden clues: they may be yellow, green or red. Then tick-tock, tick-tock… start assembling the Gigantic Puzzle!
Minimum number: 15 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h (sound visit + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €6
GGroup of < 15 children | €8
After visiting the Museum, we will recreate a landscape with a tram. Each child will have a basic image (in mosaic) they must fill in by gluing several pieces of materials, mainly everyday garbage (collected by the Museum team) and waste from other workshops. This activity is inspired by artists who work with garbage and recycle it into fabulous works of art. For example, the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz or the Portuguese artist Bordalo II.
Minimum number: 15 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €6
Group < 15 children | €8
Are we going to learn about Museu da Carris and the history of transport in Lisbon? Then, why not seize the opportunity to roll up our sleeves and create a mini transport circuit with traffic signs, a road and a crosswalk! So we can learn some road traffic rules while having fun!
Minimum number: 15 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €6
Group < 15 children | €8
First we will visit the Museum and take a tour on a 1901 tram. Then let’s begin our workshop! Have you ever thought of creating a custom-made tram? We are going to build a mini tram from a prefabricated cardboard that you have to fold, assemble and glue! Do not forget to join the base, the trolley and decorate by drawing the passengers and the brakeman.
Minimum number: 15 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €6
Group < 15 children | €8
We are going to build tailor-made transport vehicle with several cardboard boxes, then we will climb on board and take a tour. Each pair will be in charge of the construction/illustration of a module, there will be openings for the head and arms (windows) and, at the end, all the modules will be linked together so as to form a large collective transport vehicle. Now we are ready for the parade!
Minimum number: 15 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €6
Group < 15 children | €8
Has anyone ever played with a go-kart? We bet your parents know what we are talking about … With glue, cardboard, straws and a lot of imagination we are going to build and paint our toy with wheels. It can be a yellow tram, a discovery ship, a rocket car heading for the moon, or any other thing you may imagine!
Minimum number: 15 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €6
Group < 15 children | €8
In the tour of the Museum, we will discover the history of CARRIS transport system and the emblematic figures that were part of it. We will discover that this narrative has spread to different countries, from Brazil to London, by land and sea. In this playful workshop, we will draw a cartoon on the windows of a yellow bus with “magic” markers. With imagination, because “a tale never loses in the telling”. Let’s start coloring!
Minimum number: 15 participants
Maximum number: 25 participants
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 participants or more | €6
Group < 15 participants | €8
Let’s create a graphic travel journal using graphite, colored pencils, watercolors, and pens from Faber-Castell, inspired by the stunning visual details of the Santo Amaro Station. From trams to depots, to the iconic “lambretta” buses — time to sketch away!
Minimum number: 15 participants
Maximum number: 25 participants
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (workshop + guided tour)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 participants or more | €6
Group < 15 participants | €8
To preserve the memory of Carris transport, each participant is invited to create a visual composition using photo prints from the CCFL archives, old tickets and passes, and words inspired by the museum visit. We’ll use collage, cutting, tracing, and printing techniques. Everything’s on the table — just imagine, create, and go for it!
Minimum number: 15 participants
Maximum number: 25 participants
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (workshop + guided tour)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 participants or more | €6
Group < 15 participants | €8
List of Artistic Technique Workshops
Photography Technique Workshop
Inspired by the work of Anna Atkins, we’ll collect some of the weeds growing around the Carris Museum to create a cyanotype composition. After exposing our sensitized paper to sunlight, it’s time to choose a developing bath to reveal the image. While our artwork dries, we’ll enjoy a guided tour of the Carris Museum.
Due to the need for sunlight exposure, this workshop is only available from April to September.
Minimum participants: 15
Maximum participants: 25
Duration: 2h30 (workshop + guided tour)
Date: By appointment (available only from April to September)
Price (per person): €9
Materials included
Japonese Artistic Technique Workshop
This workshop begins in the Printing Room (Typography Hall) of Nucleous II of the Carris Museum, where we will explore the traditional Japanese technique of Suminagashi as a group. In this art form, ink floats on water, allowing us to create flowing patterns and images, which we can then transfer to paper.
Suminagashi means “floating ink.” Each child will have the chance to try this technique, exploring fluidity, focus, and the possibilities of abstraction. After a visit to the museum, participants will take their artwork home.
Minimum participants: 15
Maximum participants: 25
Duration: 2h30 (workshop + guided tour)
Date: By appointment (available only from April to September)
Price (per person): €9
Materials included
Urban Art Workshop
As part of its Sustainability Policy, CARRIS, through its museum, promotes educational workshops that encourage more environmentally friendly practices among younger generations.
The Tram No. 525 at the Carris Museum was transformed into Lighted Crows, an artwork by the portuguese urban artist Bordalo II. In this workshop, we’ll create small sculptures inspired by his work.
Bordalo II is known for creating animal sculptures using waste materials. As a street artist, he finishes his pieces with spray paint and special effects. In this workshop, we’ll reuse discarded materials — using glue, scissors, hammers, screws, and whatever tools we need to bring our creations to life.
Minimum participants: 15
Maximum participants: 25
Duration: 2h30 (workshop + guided tour)
Date: By appointment
Price (per person): €9
Materials included
Creative Writing Workshop
This workshop draws inspiration from the old tram flags that showed the destination of each route. We’ll begin with a guided tour of the museum, enriched with readings of poems and literary excerpts by Portuguese authors, taken from the book Cem Anos a Ranger nas Calhas by Eduardo Cintra Torres. At the end of the visit, the group will collaborate to write a poem by hand on a CARRIS destination-style flag made of tracing paper.
Minimum number: 15 participants
Maximum number: 25 participants
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 participants or more | €6
Group < 15 participants | €8
List of Seasonal Workshops
Love surprises? Let’s make a very special card for Santa Claus! With cut-outs, glue, colors, and glitter, our drawings will spring to life when we open and close our cards. It looks like magic, but it’s all thanks to clever little pop-up techniques. Come join us and make the most original holiday cards!
Minimum number: 15 participants
Maximum number: 25 participants
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 participants or more | €6
Group < 15 participants | €8
Every year, many people look forward to Carnival as a chance to become someone different. After visiting the museum, we’ll create playful masks inspired by the Carris universe. A tram driver? A barber or ticket inspector? A painter or even a tram? In this activity, we can be anyone we want to be.
Minimum number: 15 participants
Maximum number: 25 participants
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30 (history tour + workshop)
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 participants or more | €6
Group < 15 participants | €8
Museum Educators
TEAMAll the activities carried out by the Educational Service of Museu da Carris are accompanied by a team of specialized monitors with training in the different cultural and educational areas and experience in several national and international Museums.
