architecture

Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Tejo Power Station

Lisbon, Portugal

Central Tejo [Portuguese]
Museu da Electricidade [Portuguese]

Architecture

full/alternative names
Electricity Museum
higher-level structure
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)
built
1909
culture
Portuguese
work type by function
coal-fired power plant
1909–1975
science museum
1990
material
cast iron, brick, concrete
technique
cast iron frame
architect / constr. phase
1909-1912
Lucien Neu,
Fernand Touzet
first power plant
1914-1918
Cristino da Silva,
Tomás Taveira
structure with low-pressure power boilers
1936-1939
Jaime Martins,
João Franco Tojal
structure with high-pressure power boilers
1951-1952
extension of the high-pressure power boiler structure

Architecture: Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)

built
culture
Portuguese
work type by function
museum

Specifications

Specification: Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT)

area
38,000 m²

Geography

Europe » Southern Europe » Portugal » Lisbon District » Lisbon » Belém
local language location name
Lisboa, Portugal [Portuguese]