Little by little the coaches will be transferred from their current location at the National Museum in the Afonso de Albuquerque Square in Belém to a new building, also in Belem, designed by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
The new museum will be inaugurated on 23 May and is made up of two buildings with four floors including two permanent exhibition rooms and two temporary show rooms.
The museum was opened in 1905 by Queen Amélia of Orleans and Bragança, wife of King Carlos I, and was known as the Royal Coach Museum until the end of the Monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic in 1910.
The Museum has a collection that is considered unique in the world because of its artistic variety and abundance of ceremonial vehicles which hail from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.