Macau Travel - Taipa Houses Musume 氹仔住宅式博物馆

 Macau Travel - Taipa Houses Musume 氹仔住宅式博物馆 (2015 0602)

Address: Avenida da Praia, Carmo Zone, Taipa, Macau

Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., no admittance after 6:30 p.m. Closed on Mondays.

'Creative Casa': 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.. 'House for Receptions' is not open to public.

Public Guided Tours：Saturdays and Sundays 2pm to 5pm. The Museum offers guided tour services for groups by appointment.

Getting There:

Bus 11/15/22/28A/30/33/34 alight at Rua Do Cunha 氹仔官也街

 

The Taipa Houses represents the charming Portuguese architectural style in Taipa, those five houses built in 1921Once served as the residences of senior civil servants, also namely Macanese families; in 1992. The Portuguese residences along Avenida da Praia, together with the neighbouring Our Lady of Carmel Church and the garden, comprise a picturesque landscape in which the five green houses stand out as the most representative.

, they were acknowledged as a building complex of architectural value. Later, the government decided to revamp the houses completely as a museum site, opened to the public at the end of 1999 as the ‘Taipa Houses-Museum’.