It is located on Rua da Reboleira, City and municipality of Porto, North of Portugal.
The Port Wine Museum was opened in 2004 and was installed until December 2018 in Armazém do Cais Novo on the banks of the Douro River, where there was a wine warehouse and Alfândega Nova warehouse.
The new Port Wine Museum, opened on March 5, 2019, is a different iteration of the version that has been installed since 2004 at Armazém do Cais Novo in the Massarelos area.
The difference lies in the layout of the space itself (which changes from a wide ground floor to a narrow six floors) which was an opportunity to change the approach where now the common thread is the history of the control and circulation of edibles in the city.
The collection ranges from boat models to metrology and measurement equipment, documents, paintings, sculpture and furniture, the pieces are all from the Porto municipality (scattered across several places: the Soares dos Reis Museum, the Public Library and the city council's reserves).
The entire collection tells the story of how the trade and production of Port wine led to the establishment of controls and inspections that ensured the reliability of the product that bears the name of the city on the label.
The first floor is dedicated to boats, the diagrams and models of boats tell the story of the transport of wine in the Douro and the pen and pencil drawings, the models built in the 1960s were already known, measuring and inspection instruments on displays were designed like jewelry boxes, and the oldest gauges came from the Soares dos Reis Museum and date back to the reign of D. João V.
On the lower floors of the main building, a wine bar will be created where visitors will be able to try various wines, putting into practice what they learned on the other floors.
The Museum aimed to raise awareness of the history and importance of the Port wine trade in the historical development of the city through various panels and multimedia stations that illustrate all commercial activity, the wine region, the Douro railway line, the rabelo boats, the evolution of bottles and various objects related to the famous nectar.
The new exhibition at the Port Wine Museum has as its theme “City Government and Wine” and now the route revolves around three categories of municipal officials who over the centuries have dealt with wine: Councilors, Almotacés and Assessors.
Its intervention such as decision-making, supervision and comparison of standards is known through an important mass of documentation from the Municipal Historical Archive: deliberations, rulings, stances, regulations, notices and agendas.
The two categories reach our days as the Councilor and the Assessor, but the Almotacé will disappear with the Liberal Constitution of 1832 and their functions will be distributed among new positions in municipal and central power.
The documentation of municipal functions in Porto was selected as a guide throughout the various floors, a book of handwritten rulings dated 1787 that will accompany us in the exhibition, the works of art and documentation belong to the collections of the Porto City Council.
The new Port Wine Museum, opened on March 5, 2019, is a different iteration of the version that has been installed since 2004 at Armazém do Cais Novo in the Massarelos area.
The difference lies in the layout of the space itself (which changes from a wide ground floor to a narrow six floors) which was an opportunity to change the approach where now the common thread is the history of the control and circulation of edibles in the city.
The collection ranges from boat models to metrology and measurement equipment, documents, paintings, sculpture and furniture, the pieces are all from the Porto municipality (scattered across several places: the Soares dos Reis Museum, the Public Library and the city council's reserves).
The entire collection tells the story of how the trade and production of Port wine led to the establishment of controls and inspections that ensured the reliability of the product that bears the name of the city on the label.
The first floor is dedicated to boats, the diagrams and models of boats tell the story of the transport of wine in the Douro and the pen and pencil drawings, the models built in the 1960s were already known, measuring and inspection instruments on displays were designed like jewelry boxes, and the oldest gauges came from the Soares dos Reis Museum and date back to the reign of D. João V.
On the lower floors of the main building, a wine bar will be created where visitors will be able to try various wines, putting into practice what they learned on the other floors.
The Museum aimed to raise awareness of the history and importance of the Port wine trade in the historical development of the city through various panels and multimedia stations that illustrate all commercial activity, the wine region, the Douro railway line, the rabelo boats, the evolution of bottles and various objects related to the famous nectar.
The new exhibition at the Port Wine Museum has as its theme “City Government and Wine” and now the route revolves around three categories of municipal officials who over the centuries have dealt with wine: Councilors, Almotacés and Assessors.
Its intervention such as decision-making, supervision and comparison of standards is known through an important mass of documentation from the Municipal Historical Archive: deliberations, rulings, stances, regulations, notices and agendas.
The two categories reach our days as the Councilor and the Assessor, but the Almotacé will disappear with the Liberal Constitution of 1832 and their functions will be distributed among new positions in municipal and central power.
The documentation of municipal functions in Porto was selected as a guide throughout the various floors, a book of handwritten rulings dated 1787 that will accompany us in the exhibition, the works of art and documentation belong to the collections of the Porto City Council.
