This museum space is an obligatory point of passage to learn about the history and ethnography of the Algarve region.
Founded in 1986, it is housed in a palatial building from the 19th century. XIX, where late romantic style decorations are constant.
Initially owned by the cork industrialist Miguel Andrade, it is testimony to the economic expansion that the municipality experienced at the time, when it became one of the most important cork centers in the country.