JARDIM DO MUSEU DO TRAJE
Garden of the National Museum of Costume
Museu do Traje Garden is located in Lumiar in the suburb of Lisbon, once a countryside suburban part of the city, mainly occupied by fields and farms, nowadays crossed by a very transited highway. The area still presents some small houses and palaces, but it is mainly occupied by square tall condos.
The 11 acre Garden surrounding the National Museum of Costume, installed in the Angeja-Palmela Palace, (so named for having been successively property of these two families), was transformed into a museum in 1975 (already in 1974 the negotiation started, as the family owning the property was afraid of occupation actions happening after the 25 of April Revolution).
According to tradition, the Botanical Gardens were created by Domingos Vandelli in the second half of the century XVIII, in the time of the 3rd Angeja Marquis.
The garden had distinctive features that motivated the family Palmela, in the XIX century, to continue this tradition of botanical garden. Here is the first Araucaria Heterophylla known in mainland Portugal.
After acquisition by the State, in 1975 recovery and adaptation of the botanical park property proceeded, keeping its important feature areas - garden, rose garden, orchard, meadows, pine forest and garden, and implementing the increase in botanical diversity.
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