The Leiria Museum is an open window on the memory of a long-lived territory that, at the beginning of the 21st century, reveals itself with a new look at a complex reality. An idea that emerged in times of the Liberal Monarchy, the Museum was due to its realization to the persistent efforts of Tito Larcher (1865-1932), which took shape in the Decree of November 15, 1917, with the creation of the Regional Museum of Works of Art, Archeology and Numismatics from Leiria.

In 2006, the process started that gives back to the experience of the City the Convent of St.º Agostinho, a monument built from 1577 (the church) and 1579 (the convent complex), and now inhabited by the new Museum of Leiria. The museological program, which sought to participate, includes, in addition to the collection of the old museum, the municipal artistic collections and the archaeological reserve, constituting the fulcrum of the municipality’s network of museums, open to the City and its territory.

The Leiria Museum is organized into two exhibition spaces. In the first, a long-term exhibition is presented that gives a general reading of the history of the territory, proposing a path, necessarily summary, through the rich and dense forest of objects, events and myths, which define a central identity of the country.

In the second space, which is complementary to it, temporary exhibitions are presented that allow to deepen specific themes and collections.