History
The will to create a Military Museum left of the half civilian, led for the City council of Porto and to the return of the collection of the portuense painter Joaquim Vitorino Ribeiro, ran the year of 1920, when the President, António José de Almeida, inaugurated an exposition on the Liberal Revolution of 1820, in this city.
By 1957 the commandant-in-chief of the Military Region of Northern Portugal, based in Porto city, conducted a study in order to adapt the Castle of São João da Foz, at Foz do Douro parish, for a museum. However, the idea was definitively abandoned by 1970, due to the high cost of the adaptation of the building. A new location was identified in 1977, in a building in the Rua do Heroísmo, where the delegation of the former secret police PIDE/DGS used to be located between the 1940s up to 1974.
In 1977, the Revolutionary Council, created after the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, legislated the founding of the Museu Militar do Porto. After the proper adaptation of the building and installation of all the contents, the inauguration took place in 21 March 1980 by the President of the Republic, Ramalho Eanes.
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