Centro Cultural de Belém
conference centerLarge cultural complex and conference centre housing multiple auditoriums, exhibition halls, museums and performance spaces, with a main hall of roughly 1,500 seats. Known as Portugal's largest cultural building (over 140,000 m²), it hosts concerts, opera, ballet, exhibitions and major events on the riverfront in Belém.
Upcoming Events (50)
Primeira Infância
Primeira Infancia at Centro Cultural de Belém invites families to visitas-jogo that spark curiosity about Modern and Contemporary Art, using active methods and inclusive practices.
Terceiro Ciclo e Secundário
A school program at Centro Cultural de Belém offering guided visits and workshops to explore 20th-21st century art through active, inclusive learning.
Olhos Múltiplos
Olhos Múltiplos at Centro Cultural de Belém gathers three generations of artists to fuse sensorial, symbolic, and political storytelling, offering a narrative space that is intimate, collaborative, and political.
Universitário
A museum–university collaboration at Centro Cultural de Belém invites university students to explore museum education and reflect critically through the Vincular Universidades program.
José Pedro Croft
Exhibition by José Pedro Croft at Centro Cultural de Belém featuring prints, drawings, reliefs and sculptures exploring body, scale, space and architecture.
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar? at Centro Cultural de Belém stages Andrea Fraser's decades-long inquiry into institutional help, inviting reflection on what real 'help' a museum can offer amid fragmentation, anchored in five decades of production.
Pré-escolar
Preschool program at Centro Cultural de Belém with game-based visits and workshop activities to spark children's curiosity in modern and contemporary art.
Uma deriva atlântica
An art exhibition at Centro Cultural de Belém exploring 20th-century Atlantic links between European and American art through the Berardo collection.
Festas de aniversário no Museu
Festas de aniversário no Museu at Centro Cultural de Belém invites kids 4-12 to celebrate inside the museum, with a ready-made activities program, snacks, and the magic of a museum as a party venue.
Segundo Ciclo
Interactive school visits and workshops for children to explore Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon.
Notas de Música – Ciclo de Conferências
Notes of Music – Conference Cycle at Centro Cultural de Belém offers music talks and discussions that explore reading, context, and interpretation around musical works.
Primeira Infância
Primeira Infância invites families to Centro Cultural de Belém with playful visits-games and inclusive, active methods that spark children's curiosity about Modern and Contemporary Art, turning gallery exploration into joyful, collaborative discovery.
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?
May I Help You? poses Andrea Fraser's provocative performance on institutional aid in art, surveying five decades and challenging what help and connection mean in a world of fragmentation and impermanence.
Pré-escolar
Preschool program at Centro Cultural de Belém with game-based visits and workshop activities to spark children's curiosity in modern and contemporary art.
Uma deriva atlântica
An art exhibition at Centro Cultural de Belém exploring 20th-century Atlantic links between European and American art through the Berardo collection.
Universitário
A museum–university collaboration at Centro Cultural de Belém invites university students to explore museum education and reflect critically through the Vincular Universidades program.
José Pedro Croft
Exhibition by José Pedro Croft at Centro Cultural de Belém featuring prints, drawings, reliefs and sculptures exploring body, scale, space and architecture.
Terceiro Ciclo e Secundário
A school program at Centro Cultural de Belém offering guided visits and workshops to explore 20th-21st century art through active, inclusive learning.
Educação Inclusiva
Educação Inclusiva at Centro Cultural de Belém offers a hands-on workshop program built from visits-and-workshops, guiding visitors through 20th and 21st-century art with active, inclusive methods that broaden perspectives and deepen understanding.
Olhos Múltiplos
Olhos Múltiplos at Centro Cultural de Belém gathers three generations of artists whose works blend the sensitive, symbolic, ancestral with the popular and magical, inviting audiences into a collaborative, political storytelling space.
Segundo Ciclo
Interactive school visits and workshops for children to explore Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon.
Primeira Infância
Primeira Infancia at Centro Cultural de Belem invites children on playful visits to modern and contemporary art, built on active methodologies to spark curiosity.
Pré-escolar
Preschool program at Centro Cultural de Belém with game-based visits and workshop activities to spark children's curiosity in modern and contemporary art.
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?
From Andrea Fraser’s 'May I help you?', this exhibition probes institutional power in art museums, tracing five decades of work and challenging what help and connection a museum can still offer in an era of fragmentation.
Educação Inclusiva
Inclusive Education workshop at Centro Cultural de Belem blends playful visits, workshops, and guided tours with active inclusive methods to broaden understanding of 20th and 21st century art.
Universitário
A museum–university collaboration at Centro Cultural de Belém invites university students to explore museum education and reflect critically through the Vincular Universidades program.
Uma deriva atlântica
An art exhibition at Centro Cultural de Belém exploring 20th-century Atlantic links between European and American art through the Berardo collection.
Olhos Múltiplos
In Lisbon’s Centro Cultural de Belém, Olhos Múltiplos gathers three generations of artists who fuse the sensitive, the ancestral and the magical with the popular and the carnival, offering a collaborative, political narration as intimate, polyphonic practice.
Terceiro Ciclo e Secundário
A school program at Centro Cultural de Belém offering guided visits and workshops to explore 20th-21st century art through active, inclusive learning.
José Pedro Croft
Exhibition by José Pedro Croft at Centro Cultural de Belém featuring prints, drawings, reliefs and sculptures exploring body, scale, space and architecture.
Segundo Ciclo
Interactive school visits and workshops for children to explore Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon.
Sobre a verdade da mentira
A guided discussion on truth vs. lies in the age of misinformation, exploring how deepfakes, algorithms, and bots shape our perception and trust.
Primeira Infância
Primeira Infância at Centro Cultural de Belém invites families on visitas-jogo—playful, active-learning experiences that spark children's curiosity about Modern and Contemporary Art through inclusive, hands-on explorations.
Educação Inclusiva
Educação Inclusiva at Centro Cultural de Belém uses visitas-jogo, workshops, and guided tours to reveal multiple perspectives on 20th- and 21st-century art, empowering nonformal learning and critical reflection through inclusive methods.
Pré-escolar
Preschool program at Centro Cultural de Belém with game-based visits and workshop activities to spark children's curiosity in modern and contemporary art.
Terceiro Ciclo e Secundário
A school program at Centro Cultural de Belém offering guided visits and workshops to explore 20th-21st century art through active, inclusive learning.
José Pedro Croft
Exhibition by José Pedro Croft at Centro Cultural de Belém featuring prints, drawings, reliefs and sculptures exploring body, scale, space and architecture.
Uma deriva atlântica
An art exhibition at Centro Cultural de Belém exploring 20th-century Atlantic links between European and American art through the Berardo collection.
Olhos Múltiplos
Olhos Múltiplos at Centro Cultural de Belém gathers three artists across generations, weaving sensorial, symbolic, ancestral and spiritual with the popular, carnival, magical and the abject into a collaborative, political narrative space that invites narration.
Universitário
A museum–university collaboration at Centro Cultural de Belém invites university students to explore museum education and reflect critically through the Vincular Universidades program.
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar? at Centro Cultural de Belém traces Andrea Fraser's provocative question through five decades of art, challenging museums and audiences about help, connection and the limits of institutions, including around 90 works.
Segundo Ciclo
Interactive school visits and workshops for children to explore Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon.
Primeira Infância
Primeira Infância lights up Centro Cultural de Belém with active visitas-jogo and inclusive, playful methods that spark curiosity in children about modern and contemporary art, inviting families to explore together.
Programa Vincular – Serviço de Educação e Mediação
MAC/CCB's Education and Mediation program invites schools to explore art, education and creativity through guided visits and workshops around the collections, temporary exhibitions, and architecture.
Educação Inclusiva
Educação Inclusiva at Centro Cultural de Belém invites visitors through visitas-jogo, oficinas and themed tours, using active, inclusive methods to broaden understanding of 20th–21st-century art and nurture diverse perspectives.
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar?
May I Help You? Posso Ajudar? at Centro Cultural de Belém stages a long-running question by Andrea Fraser about help and institutions, probing five decades of art production and museum connections in a thought-provoking exhibition.
Uma deriva atlântica
An art exhibition at Centro Cultural de Belém exploring 20th-century Atlantic links between European and American art through the Berardo collection.
Pré-escolar
Preschool program at Centro Cultural de Belém with game-based visits and workshop activities to spark children's curiosity in modern and contemporary art.
Universitário
A museum–university collaboration at Centro Cultural de Belém invites university students to explore museum education and reflect critically through the Vincular Universidades program.
José Pedro Croft
Exhibition by José Pedro Croft at Centro Cultural de Belém featuring prints, drawings, reliefs and sculptures exploring body, scale, space and architecture.