Museu Benfica

Benfica Museum
Cosme Damião

Museu Benfica – Cosme Damião
Established	26 July 2013
Location	Estádio da Luz, Lisbon
Coordinates	38°45′09″N 9°11′05″W / 38.752594°N 9.18467°W
Type	Sports museum
Visitors	150,000[1] (10 October 2015)
Curator	Luís Lapão
Owner	S.L. Benfica
Public transit access	Alto dos Moinhos Colégio Militar/Luz Lisbon Metro Blue Line
Website	Official website

The Museu Benfica – Cosme Damião is the museum of Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica. It was named in honour of Cosme Damião, one of the club founders.

It was inaugurated on 26 July 2013, under the presidency of Luís Filipe Vieira, and was opened to the public on 29 July 2013, one year and three months after the start of construction.

Located near the stadium, the building occupies 4,000 square metres and it is composed of three floors which are followed by a huge vertical parallelepiped made of glass exhibiting more than 500 trophies. The museum is split in 29 thematic areas and contains around 1,000 trophies won by the club's sports, a collection superior to 20,000 objects, documents, images, audio and video related to the history of Benfica, as well of Portugal (1755 Lisbon earthquake, Carnation Revolution) and the world (Apollo 11), audiovisual touchscreens, a hologram of Eusébio, an area displaying (in a loop) photos of Benfica supporters, and finally an elevator surrounded by video walls showing messages and images of Benfiquistas. This area transports the visitors to the geodesic dome on the top of building, which displays a short film about the club's history.^[2][3][4][5]

On 12 December 2014, the museum was awarded the prize for Best Portuguese Museum of 2014 by Associação Portuguesa de Museologia (APOM).^[6]

References

1. Museu ultrapassa os 150 mil visitantes (in Portuguese)
2. Edisport. ":.: Museu dá o pontapé de saída - Benfica - Jornal Record :.:". xl.pt.
3. VISÃO - Impresa Publishing S.A. "Visita guiada ao novo Museu do Benfica". Visão.
4. Edisport. ":.: O que pode ver no Museu do Benfica - Fotogalerias - Jornal Record :.:". xl.pt.
5. "Bicampeões para a história" [Back-to-back champions for the ages]. Visão (in Portuguese) (Portugal: Impresa Publishing). May 2015. pp. 62–63. ISSN 0872-3540.
6. "Museu Cosme Damião considerado o melhor português de 2014" [Museu Cosme Damião considered the best Portuguese museum of 2014] (in Portuguese). S.L. Benfica. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Making Of Museu Cosme Damião (Portuguese)