In the 15th-century Royal Customs House on the quayside is a museum charting the shipbuilding trade that claimed the entire Ave Riverside through the Early Modern Age and up to the 20th century.

With model boats, tools and tableaux the museum handles three different fields.

First you’ll delve into the Portuguese Age of Discovery, when the likes of Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama were blazing a trail.

You’ll also learn more about the building’s role as a Custom House, and then there’s extra depth on Vila do Conde’s historic shipbuilding industry, and the kinds of vessels built at these docks.