Match Museum: Got a light?

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 00:00

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The Museu dos Fósforos in Tomar, north of Lisbon, strikes a collection of more than  40,000 matchboxes from more than 100 countries are on display. The largest collection of its kind in Europe is housed in the historic former  Convento de São Francisco. It was amassed by 'phillumenist' Aquiles da Mota Lima from the 1950s to the 1980s. Largo 5 de Outubro - Open daily: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.