I wish my literature class were as interactive as the exhibits in this museum. Although it is small, the museum covers Crucial moments in saramago's personal.life as well as his literature. When you visit the museum, you will get a discount voucher to visit Casa Fernando Pessoa, which will only cost you 1 euro to visit it. The gift shop is exorbitantly overpriced, but quite complete. A must-visit if you enjoy his works

Jose Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works, fiction and non, are timeless enquiries into the human condition as seen through the eyes of a man who grew up in a poor rural village, lived in Lisbon for years under a repressive dictatorship and finally survived to experience post Salazar Portugal. He is funny, clever, unexpected. The Foundation provides a complete expose of the man with an excellent series of photographs as well as a bookstore with all of his works translated into many languages.

Free archeological expo on the first floor shows walls of ancient Lisbon and a little city history, and history of this famous building. Upstairs is a museum devoted to Saramago, Nobel Prize winner, important writer.