The Electricity Museum was a former museum belonging to the EDP Foundation installed in the old Central Tejo, Av. from Brasilia, Lisbon. It is now integrated into the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) under the name Circuito Central Elétrica.
The museum presents in its spaces, the past, present and future of Energies, in a concept of Museum of Science and Industrial Archaeology, where thematic and experimental exhibitions coexist side by side, with the most varied cultural and business events.
It is located in the Belém area, on land conquered by Lisbon from the Tagus River at the end of the 19th century, in one of the areas with the greatest historical monuments in the city where we can find, among others, the Jerónimos Monastery, the Belém Cultural Centre, the Torre de Belém, the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, the Palace and Museum of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, or the Cordoaria Nacional.