MUSEU DO FADO (FADO MUSEUM)
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Interesting house-museum with a very well-stocked bookshop and concerts twice a week.
This is the museum not to be missed if you want to find out more about the traditional music of Portugal and especially Lisbon, which can be heard everywhere in the city's streets. The museum's permanent exhibition is well laid out, revealing the history of fado, its origins in19th-century Lisbon, its dissemination through revue theater, radio, recordings and cinema, and the technical evolution of its instrument: the guitar. Educational too, with its musical and multimedia terminals. And let's not forget the superb and spellbinding O Fado (1910) by the brilliant painter José Malhoa (1855-1933), on loan from the Museu da Cidade (City Museum), the image par excellence of the musical style, listed as a World Intangible Heritage Site by UNESCO at the end of 2011. The museum's bookshop is also well-stocked, with books (in all languages!) and records of fado "extended" to... Leonard Cohen, for example! The visit can be rounded off with a fetish pilgrimage to the house-museum of the great Amália Rodrigues, who was the idol of an entire people. Fado concerts are held here regularly. A true tribute to fado and its two instruments: the viola (the classic Spanish guitar), which sets the cadence and tone, and the guitarra portuguesa, a kind of twin 6-string mandolin used for arpeggios and accompaniment.
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Le musée est sympa mais effectivement, il faut s'y connaitre un peu en musique traditionnelle portugaise.