Museu Dos Fosforos

An amazing and underrated museum - must go!

A museum of matchboxes. Glass case after class case with 43,000 boxes from countries all over the world. And I bet you think it'll be really, really boring. But here's the strange thing. As you wander...

Visiting Tomar.

This small but anyhow very interesting museu mis located in the “Convento de S. Francisco”, it preserves a collection of more than 80 thousand boxes, labels and matchbooks donated by Aquiles da Mota t...

Surprisingly interesting!

Recommended by our hotel , we wandered along and we were pleasantly surprised by this amazing collection of some 80000 matchboxes from around the world. Think pre lighter , when nearly everyone smoked...

Surprising, interesting but needs urgent updating

The "Museu dos Fósforos" is an exciting place to visit nearby the old Franciscan convent. The museum offers a considerable collection of matchboxes, mainly from Portugal, including former colonies, as...

one very impressive collection

how this man started collecting matchboxes is a story in itself. the museum is free and huge and has matchboxes from all over the world,hopefully including your part of the world which only adds to i...