Costume Museum

This guide to the Costume Museum in Lisbon follows Tomás Alcaide, a young man from Estremoz who abandoned medical school in 1925 to train as an opera singer in Milan, and traces the stages he sang on across Europe and the Americas. It also traces the eighteenth-century palace itself, from aristocratic estate to a wartime shelter for refugee nuns to a purchase by the new democratic Portuguese state in the years after the Carnation Revolution. Listen for the story of the palace as you walk through its old aristocratic rooms.