Bread Museum
The National Bread Museum was inaugurated on September 2002, in Seia, in Serra da Estrela.
Today it is a symbol of the people and a universal good that continuously collects, preserves and displays objects and heritage bread. It is Portuguese in its ethnographic, political, social, historical, religious and artistic aspects.
This theme makes the National Bread Museum a true age-independent icon and is an experience of sharing, contact with nature and enrichment of the soul.
What can we see at the Bread Museum?
The National Bread Museum offers a multisensory experience by visiting the four museum themed rooms, a bar-library, a traditional grocery store and a restaurant.
It is in the thematic rooms that the history of bread is explained in exhibitions that reveal the history of agriculture, the processing of cereals, the grinding, the cooking and displaying of old utensils, but also the art of bread and its influence on politics and social and religious issues.
The Museum also offers a thematic space specially dedicated to younger visitors, in a room enchanted by the gnomes of the tribe of The Hermians, protectors of the first inhabitants of the Hermian´s hills, which invite an imaginary and mystified journey into the past of bread, full of movement, light, color and fantasy.
Outside the museum, it is possible to enjoy a themed carousel, accessible to all, enjoy a meal in the museum restaurant, and visit the grocery store, full of objects that bring the memories of the past alive and where the smell of hot bread just baked is a constant.
Fernando Pessoa’s estate of the National Bread Museum is also part of the tour, where the poet was inspired to write his works.
This piece contributes to bring art to all, in an initiative that not only promotes decentralization bringing culture to the interior of the country but also by the relationship of works with the projects and narrative of the Museum so that each incorporation is an added value and a useful contribution to visitors.
Through his family, Fernando Pessoa conducted a profound reflection on the relationship between truth, existence and identity, values equally shared by the National Bread Museum in its relationship with the community.
What is the biggest attraction of the Bread Museum?
The friendliness with which visitors are received and the promise of a journey to the memories of the past, for all ages. This is the museum’s biggest intangible attraction, which in practice complements a truly multisensory and culturally enriching experience during the visit to all the spaces of the National Bread Museum, without exception.
Projects for the future of the Museum?
The Museum will continue to focus on the dissemination of bread as a universal good and promoting its history and culture.
When, on September 26, 2002 the National Bread Museum was inaugurated it was not expected to raise the emotions that would awake with the population and that such a project at that time would have such a universal theme.
Even though museums have always been important instruments for preserving the cultural memory of a people, for almost two decades only a small part of the population visited them.
For many people, the National Bread Museum was the first museum they ever visited!
Over these 19 years, thousands of people have visited Serra da Estrela.
The tourists found much more to the journey into the wonderful world of Bread.
From here they took a thrilled and unexpected return to the origins among mills, tools, sacks of bread and stories of life. From here they took an experiment that will be stuck in their minds forever.
The National Bread Museum is a brand of the O Valor do Tempo Group.
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