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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> Group visits may have a different price on weekends. Please check with us.
> Specific tours and activities are also available.
List of Game-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, in a dynamic and creative journey that will certainly be engraved on your memory!
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
Once upon a time… a tour of Museu da Carris. The doors of CARRIS open and our book transports you to a museum tour full of fantasy, drawings and interaction. The CARRIS book is a complement to the guided tour that proposes that the story be valued as an imaginary space. The group is invited to relate, in a participatory and dynamic way, the Museum’s collection to an illustrated narrative.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
The History of CARRIS in a Travel Bag. Reports of major events that took place in Lisbon and around the world and brought different public transports to our city. Travel across several countries, calculate coordinates and cross borders, to jump into a fun adventure and discover American streetcars, yellow trams and vintage buses!
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | 4€
Group < 15 children | 6,5€
Directed at young teenagers, preferably those who are studying transportation. Different issues are referred, such as the various professions at CARRIS, from brakeman to switchman; the evolution of the locomotion forces of vehicles and the history of the city of Lisbon, namely, the development of its topographic map. At the end of the tour, a quiz is used to test the participants in teams. A certificate of achievement is the final reward!
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€
The Brakeman and the Ticket-Ripper are the guides to Museu da CARRIS! On this special tour, visitors are invited to enter the Museum accompanied by a friendly brakeman and a stubborn driver, both in uniform. Along the way they will tell the story of CARRIS in constant dialogue with each other and with the visitors. They will also obliterate the tickets, show vehicle tricks, and exemplify some funny situations.
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 persons or more | 4,5€
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 | 20€
List of Workshops
“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
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €5,5
GGroup of < 15 children | €8
Hurry, we have half an hour to make up a story and figure out our characters based on what we saw at the Museum! Now, an hour to bring the imaginary characters to life and make a mini puppet theater with colorful fabrics, wool, felt, lots of buttons and pens!
Minimum number: 15 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h
Hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €5,5
Group of < 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
Hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €5,5
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
Hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €5,5
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
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €5,5
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 children
Maximum number: 25 children
Number of Monitors: 2
Duration: 2h30
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €5,5
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
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €5,5
Group < 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
Date and hour: by appointment
Price (unit value):
Group of 15 children or more | €5,5
Group < 15 children | €8
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process in blue tones, which produces an image in cyan/blueprint. The process uses two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. The development is obtained by exposure to sunlight or in a dark room. The objective is to reproduce images starting from objects or negatives on glass or plate, create imaginative and harmonious compositions and learn the technique so as to replicate it in future activities. In this workshop you can learn this technique, create compositions and take home your photographic experiences.
Minimum number: 10 persons
Maximum number: 15 persons
Duration: 2h (without the visit)
Date: by appointment (available from March to September only)
Materials included
Price (unit value): €9
Marbled paper is used as a decorative coating on the inside and outside of books. It can be produced by two techniques: oil paint in an aqueous medium or acrylic paint over tylose. The process produces patterns similar to marble or other stones. The patterns are the result of ink droplets that float and are transferred to the absorbent surface of the paper. Each impression is unique – monotypic. The objective of this workshop is to teach this technique from bathing to drying, so that participants can create their own papers as art on itself or for later use in binding.
Minimum number: 10 persons
Maximum number: 15 persons
Duration: 2h (without the visit)
Date: by appointment
Price (unit value): €9
Materials included
Activities monitors
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.
Safe activities
COVID-19In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Museum organizes its activities according to the safety measures of the General Health Directorate (GHD), ensuring that the Workshops and Tours are carried out with protection and safety for all participants. All Museu da Carris’ employees wear a mask. The monitors received specific training on Covid-19. The spaces comply with the recommendations of the GHD and the cleaning and disinfection of the spaces is carried out daily. The Museum has an elaborated Contingency Plan and an isolation room. Find out the detailed information on the safety measures that have been implemented for the activities.
- Everyone aged 6 or more years must wear a mask inside the Museum.
- Everyone must maintain a distance of 2 meters, especially in situations where the mask is not mandatory.
- The groups must wait in line under the archway at the entrance to Museu da Carris, maintaining a distance of about 2 meters between each person.
- At the entrance to the Museum, they must wash their hands with the disinfectant provided by the Museum.
Groups (up to 25 children) are divided up to about 10 children per monitor.
- For the workshop, the group is divided up to 10 children and the visit and workshop will be done alternately. One group will work on the activity while the other group takes the tour and then both groups change.
- During this period, individual production workshops are privileged in order to avoid sharing and working together. This does not mean that the final work will not be a team project.
- All materials for individual use are previously prepared and disinfected.
- The distance between each child is ensured by distributing only two/three children per table, depending on its size.
- It may happen that the monitor gives specific instructions to remove the mask at some point during the activity. That will only happen when safety distance can be maintained at all times or when the activity takes place outdoors.
- During this period, children are not allowed to sit down on the floor in a circle or to enter the Museum’s vehicles (closed to the public).
- Objects should not be touched.
- In the tram that runs between the 2 centers of Museu da Carris, the back entrance should be used and a seat should be left empty between each child.
If no previous transfer has been made (with proof of payment), payment must be made in cash (at the ticket office) or by ATM (at the Museum shop).