Costume Museum
Palace museum spanning three centuries of Portuguese dress, from court gowns to modern fashion.
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This guide to the Costume Museum in Lisbon starts in April 1925, when a medical student from Estremoz shuts his textbooks and leaves for Italy to sing. You'll follow Tomás Alcaide from Milan and La Scala to stages across Europe and America, and meet one of the costumes he left behind. Then it turns to the eighteenth-century palace around you, built for the Marquis of Angeja. Start at the foot of the main marble staircase and look for the medallion with the eagle.
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