Museu de Electricidade - Casa da Luz

An Island Paradise

A beautiful, old city which has worked hard to retain its charm. The cathedral and central shopping district are easy to navigate. Since Madeira and Funchal get 30% of their GDP from tourism, and the ...

Fascinating and unusual place to go particularly if at least one of you is fed up with shopping in Funchal

We had a fascinating time visiting the museum. We must thank Alvaro for imparting his considerable knowledge to us. The museum charts (with actual restored generating equipment - some enormous) the de...

An interesting find

Fascinating if you are interested in the history of electricity on the island! Old British made turbines and examples of switches, rheostats, electrical equipment etc etc. Upstairs there are interacti...

Well laid out

Like all the museums we visited in Madeira, it was small. Niche interest for a very reasonable price. The bottom floor, which is the museum, had English and German translations throughout. There wa...

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Original Text

We have visited the exhibition “One Century Electricity” with great interest - the history of the electrification development on the island including Santos. Different Maschi ...