Learn & create in Lisbon

Regular oriental dance classes with Carla Sofia at the Museu do Oriente, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 13.00 to 14.00 for ages 16 and over, available in person or live online via Google Meets.

A guided or audio-guided tour through more than 7,000 years of beer history, culminating in a toast to Portugal's craft beer scene and a tasting of three Portuguese craft beers for visitors over 18. Under-16s enter free.

A multisensory tour through more than 7,000 years of beer history — from a recreated European monastic cellar to the industrial revolution — ending with a complimentary craft beer for visitors over 18. Under-16s enter free.

Japanese calligraphy (Shodo) workshop with Yuko Kase, for ages 16 and over.

An open freestyle jam session welcoming all musical styles, facilitated by Márcio Pinto aka Magupi and Nuno Ferreira, with an opening performance by kora griot Braima Galissá. Free entry.

In this visit-workshop, participants explore a sensory studio with their whole body and create a sculptural object inspired by works from the Gulbenkian Museum collection.

A visit to revisit the CAM building and learn about its transformation.

A visit for primary school children to explore the sounds of Lisbon's trees using a tree-box.

In the ABC of Music, each letter gains sound, rhythm and life, in an A-to-Z journey through composers, instruments and melodies that turn music into words, gestures and little sound stories.

A game-like visit that promotes learning Portuguese as a non-native language in a museum context.

This visit turns into a choreography: a short dance you can take back to school and repeat as many times as you like.

A guided tour highlighting the key pieces of the Gulbenkian Museum, from Ancient Egypt to Persia and Japan, ending with European Art.

An outdoor class that questions the limits of the classroom and proposes learning geometry and history through the elements of the garden.

This session draws on the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach to bring together music, senses and movement in a sensory artistic experience.

Based on the Centro de Arte Moderna collection, the education team designs specific, transdisciplinary sessions tailored to the chosen theme and grounded in the artistic reference.

What happens when we gather in a circle in the Museum? This visit-workshop uses group portraits to explore the idea of being together.

In this guided tour, participants explore various spaces of the Gulbenkian Building, including areas normally closed to the public.

Informal encounters with musicians and conductors of the Gulbenkian Orchestra or guests, where students can watch part of the rehearsals.

A musical visit for preschoolers that encourages learning about musical instruments, the sounds of nature and the voice.

An activity that starts from observation to find the common element among works in the CAM collection.

A musical visit designed for preschool children, inviting them to observe the Museum's works through sound and the senses.

A tour that adapts the eponymous game to the exhibition space, combining interpretation questions with sensory and creative exploration activities.

In this workshop, participants sharpen their senses to discover the Garden in a more complete way and build a sensory map of the place, inspired by Alberto Caeiro.

In this visit-workshop, participants explore the theme of collecting in an art exhibition, discovering how the things we keep gain meaning and tell stories.

A multisensory visit adapted to the needs of people with memory loss, a dementia diagnosis, and their caregivers.

A game-like visit to discover the stories and memories of the objects collected by Gulbenkian.

In this guided tour for private groups, visitors get to know the new building and tour the CAM Collection, with a focus on the key works of this collection.

A guided tour of the headquarters, Museum, and Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

This visit explores the Gulbenkian Garden and its design, revealing the symbiotic relationship between the garden and the Foundation's buildings and how this 20th-century landscape architecture masterpiece was realised.

A visit to the Gulbenkian Garden adapted for people with memory loss or dementia and their caregivers, evoking the plants of childhood.

A journey to China through pieces from Calouste Gulbenkian's collection, exploring the main symbols of the Middle Kingdom and the ancient stories and traditions they tell.

A musical workshop for sensory, sound and creative exploration, based on exploring various musical instruments.

In this dynamic and engaging workshop, children are invited to dive into the world of music through free experimentation and collective creation.

A gastronomic tour through the Gulbenkian collection, full of ingredients for a mouth-watering menu.

In this workshop, participants are challenged to (de)construct their multiple portraits, based on works of Portuguese modernism from the CAM collection.

This activity invites a sensory experience through the exhibition, where art is not only seen but felt and explored through sound, music and dance.

A guided tour of the immersive exhibition by artist Inês Zenha, featuring painting, sculpture, and installation.

A guided visit to this landmark project in landscape architecture in Portugal.

A multisensory tour with audio description to get to know the Gulbenkian Garden up close.

A game-visit for the 2nd cycle that explores the biodiversity of the Gulbenkian Garden and the role of humans in protecting nature.

A guided tour of the Gulbenkian Museum for 2nd cycle students, journeying through different centuries and cultures.

A game-like tour that takes participants on a journey through France, Greece, Turkey and China, discovering different cultures through the artworks purchased by Calouste Gulbenkian.

A guided tour for private groups of the Gulbenkian Foundation's Building and Garden, a National Monument, highlighting the relationship between architecture and garden.

In this visit, drawing helps us understand the possibilities that the pencil line offered artists throughout the ages.

Visits that give students direct contact with rehearsals, backstage, concerts, musicians, conductors and guests of the Gulbenkian Orchestra.

A customized visit, upon request, for students of various levels to the Gulbenkian Museum collection.

A guided tour of the exhibition Xerazade. The Interminable Collection of CAM, which presents the collection in a surprising, non-chronological way, creating dialogues and relationships between authors and works from different styles and periods.

A guided tour of the Fundação Oriente museum, part of Foundations and Donors Day, with free entry and limited to 25 participants. The visit highlights the role of donations in building the foundation's collections.

On October 1, from 17h00 to 19h30, the workshop 'The Shape of Sound' invites participants aged 14+ to explore the connection between music, art and nature, giving visual form to sound through painting.

A guided tour through the Gulbenkian Garden exploring the surprising dialogue between botany, classical literature (Ovid) and the philosophy of nature (Goethe) on metamorphoses.

Four-day workshop led by Rui Sousa, from 1 to 4 October, with specific times for each day.

A workshop at the MAAT where children aged 6 and over build a solar-powered car and then race it in an exciting challenge. It lasts 60 minutes, costs 8€ per participant, and the meeting point is the MAAT Central ticket office.

Dance workshop for children aged 7 to 12. Price: €4.

Dance workshop for children aged 3 to 6. Price: €4.

A regular visit to the Tejo Power Station, every Saturday and Sunday at 10h30, where children aged 7 to 12, helmets on, discover the old factory that produced electricity for Lisbon in the 20th century.

A guided tour in Portuguese Sign Language with a deaf mediator, offering a new perspective on the pieces in the Casa Fernando Pessoa exhibition.

A guided tour in Portuguese of the Casa Fernando Pessoa exhibition, on Saturdays and Sundays at 16h00, with 60 minutes of questions and answers about Pessoa's stories and memories; tickets 6€.

Guided tours of Pedro Cabrita Reis’s exhibition “com o coração livre de cuidados” at MAAT, held on Saturdays and Sundays at 10.30, bringing together around two hundred unpublished works spanning painting, drawing, collage and sculpture.

A mediator-led tour of Turn around, the exhibition presenting an extended route through the Fundação EDP's contemporary art collection, crossing artists of different generations and disciplines such as Ana Jotta and Joana Vasconcelos. Tours run on Saturdays and Sundays at 15.00, last 60 minutes and meet at the MAAT Central ticket office.

A journey through the history of energy, from the past to our collective future, focusing on the challenges of the energy transition and sustainability, inviting visitors — including the little ones — to be active agents of change.

A hands-on music workshop by Bruno Estima and WETUMTUM, where participants explore group music-making through playful challenges and instruments, culminating in a short public presentation.

Norquestra is an interactive concert in which audiences and musicians explore the mystery of musical creation, with the audience invited to intervene in the music being played. The show emerges from a creation-research process developed with musicians and neuroscientists.

A hands-on workshop in the Big Bang festival where participants combine singing and the traditional Portuguese adupe frame drum, mattering how small rhythmic impulses can become a collective flood of sound.

An interactive sound installation by composer Jaime Reis and violinist Beatriz Costa, inviting audiences to explore and create soundscapes from the skeleton of a reconstructed piano.

A staged tour of the Ajuda Palace led by Queen Maria Pia of Savoy, the queen who lived there longest. The visit ends with a ball in the palace's salons.

A MAAT workshop for children aged 8 and over about what an electromagnet is, how it is built and what it is used for, with the knowledge put to the test in a game at the end. It takes place on Sundays at 16.00 and lasts 60 minutes.

A creative workshop by Teatro Praga, with Cláudia Jardim and Diogo Bento, at the MAAT: starting from the works in the 'Turn around' exhibition, participants build narratives and performative proposals with the body and movement, in a final result open to their families.

A theatre show celebrating the power of imagination, where a mysterious Story Enchanter invites the audience to create a story together.

A theatre show for babies and early childhood created and performed by Carolina Picoito Pinto, in which the 'little monkeys' of the heart are discovered to the sound of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Beethoven and Prokofiev, in a clown language full of sensory stimuli.

The Secret Tour takes visitors into areas of Central Tejo that are normally closed to the public, from the various floors of the boilers and the rheostat room to the mixing tower, the water castle and the tunnels. Tickets cost 15€ for residents in Portugal and 20€ for residents abroad.

Guided tour in Italian of Casa Fernando Pessoa, lasting 60 minutes, on Sundays at 11am. Price: 6€.

Guided tour of Palácio Pimenta, exploring the relationship between Lisbon and the Tagus River throughout history.

Hands-on kimchi-making workshop where participants learn about the history and cultural significance of kimchi and prepare their own.

Korean tea ceremony workshop where participants explore autumn traditions, taste different teas and treats, and learn about Korean culture.

Art Cart is a workshop that invites families with children aged six and up to do creative activities together.

In this drawing workshop, we'll get to know and see with fresh eyes some works from the Gulbenkian Museum, in the company of Catarina Dias.

A monthly meditation experience at MAAT, with each session tailored to the current exhibition and featuring an exclusive meditation in the exhibition space. Aimed at young people (12+) and adults, it connects art, mindfulness and well-being.

A guided tour of a selection from the CAM collection, arranged in fourteen thematic clusters inspired by the fictional device of the thousand-year-old story of 'One Thousand and One Nights'.

A kimono pattern‑making and sewing workshop for beginners, guided by Cristina Neves, where each participant creates a unique piece, blending classic and contemporary styles.

In this workshop, participants explore the Japanese beauty ritual, learning its principles and creating two personalized skincare products with natural ingredients like rice, azuki, and camellia oil.

A drawing and painting workshop for children aged 6 to 14, inviting them to imagine and draw the mythical figure Caquesseitão and to look for the actual object in the museum, then reinterpret it with unusual materials.

Introduction to sumi-e painting workshop with Mami Higuchi, where participants practice basic brushstrokes and draw bamboo and other elements.

Exclusive visit exploring Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles' interventions in the Gulbenkian Garden between 2000 and 2014.

Photo-paper discovery of the Moagem Factory, a photographic clue game with 11 challenges to complete in 50 minutes.

Guided tours with audio description at Casa Fernando Pessoa provide detailed, objective descriptions of rooms and objects for visually impaired visitors. The house also has tactile paving, captions and braille materials; general tickets cost €6 and exemptions are only available at the box office.

A children's workshop that turns them into modern collectors, they explore the Museu do Oriente's galleries and the collection of professor Kwok On, then makes their own miniature collection of drawings and cutouts.

Origami workshop to learn how to create anesama dolls, an ancient Japanese tradition.

In this guided tour with Ivo Meco, we'll discover botanical curiosities in the Garden.

Route through Marquês de Pombal Roundabout to discover the history of Portuguese pavement, a living heritage that reflects the relationship between Lisbon, light and the ground.

TKESHI, born in a Georgian pine forest, brings new media art, audiovisual performances and diverse music to Lisbon, with five days of workshops and labs at RnA Studio & Zabra and a final showcase at Those Who Dance on 10 October.

A four-session workshop exploring the classical Indian dance form, covering gestures, movement, rhythm, and emotion.

A guided tour with audio description of Alexandre Estrela's RedSkyFalls at Galeria Zé dos Bois, aimed at blind and low-vision visitors, on 10 October at 16H.

A workshop for children where you build a simple electrical circuit and test it in a skill and concentration challenge, inspired by getting past a sleeping dragon without waking it.

A monthly open-access workshop for families where experimentation is the watchword.

In this workshop, participants learn to build a foldable paper archive, inspired by the Japanese concept of Mottainai, reusing materials and exploring folds and fittings.

In this activity, families learn to make ink from the garden's oak galls and draw what they like most about the space. Aimed at children aged 6 to 12.

The Missing Half is a show-workshop about the things we lack, search for and sometimes lose, described as a declaration of love to things from the simplest to the most complex. The audience stands, with no seated places, so arriving early is advised.

An activity for children aged 4 to 6 in which a first visit to the museum becomes a box of surprises, with unpredictable colours, shapes and textures to discover as a family.

A guided visit to discover the mythological presence of Apollo and Bacchus in Lisbon's heritage.

In this guided tour of the exhibition 'Painting is Easy. Do It Yourself!', we are invited to question what art is, who makes it and how it is produced, following the clues of an exhibition that turns the visitor into a participant.

MAAT's program for adult and senior audiences, with online and in-person sessions, to discuss contemporary art themes.

An exclusive tour led by the Museum Director to discover the vision behind the renovation and the new exhibition route.

In this course, participants will discover some of the most notable ceramic works from the Gulbenkian Collection.

Guided tour in Spanish of Casa Fernando Pessoa, sharing curiosities about the life and work of the writer and stories of early 20th-century Lisbon.

An introductory workshop on linocut technique with Maria Manuel Lyra, where participants learn the basics of composition, carving, and manual printing.