Bread Museum joins the Portuguese Museum Network
A museum born from the work of hands now enters the official map of Portuguese museology
The Bread Museum has been part of the Portuguese Museum Network since 4 November, fulfilling a long-held aspiration. The public announcement of this admission was made at the annual meeting of the Portuguese Museum Network, held in Braga on 4 and 5 November, as part of the celebrations of Braga 25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture, an event that brought together around 250 participants and representatives of more than 90 museum institutions from across the country.
The accreditation process of the Bread Museum was formalised through Order no. 12937/2025, of 4 November, signed by the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Margarida Balseiro Lopes, highlighting the institutional recognition and official integration of the Bread Museum within the national museum system.
“This integration is the culmination of a journey of more than two decades dedicated to preserving bread as a living heritage of Portugal. Joining the Portuguese Museum Network is, for us, more than a recognition: it is the possibility of taking this history even further,” states the Bread Museum.
According to Fátima Roque, Director of the Portuguese Museum Network, “The modernisation of the Bread Museum was a constant factor throughout the application process, with the museum identifying its ambition to actively contribute as a catalyst for social transformation, in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and with the Strategy for the Promotion of Accessibility and Inclusion in Museums. With the admission of the Bread Museum, the Network now has 175 museums — more voices, more territories, more stories to discover and share. Each museum that joins the Network brings new experiences, knowledge and ways of seeing the world. Together, we reinforce the role of museums as living spaces of encounter, learning and creativity.”
By joining the Portuguese Museum Network, the Bread Museum becomes part of a community of museums that share principles of quality, accessibility and social relevance, and that work together to build a living and participatory museology.
Alongside the Bread Museum, five more museums were accredited: Sugar City Museum, Lagos Museum, Sebastião Mateus Arenque Municipal Museum, Radiolândia – Radio Museum and the Pharmacy Museum.