Museu Benfica – Cosme Damião

The Museu Benfica – Cosme Damião, located in Lisbon, showcases the history and heritage of Sport Lisboa e Benfica, one of Portugal’s most successful football clubs. Visitors can explore exhibits featuring trophies, memorabilia, and interactive displays that highlight the club’s achievements across various sports. The museum offers guided tours, a virtual tour option, and educational activities suitable for all ages, making it an engaging destination for sports enthusiasts and families alike.

Planning your visit

The Benfica museum is named after Cosme Damião, the club's founder and first coach, and it covers a sporting institution that is unusual in scale — Benfica has held Guinness recognition for the largest paid membership of any club in the world, with hundreds of thousands of members. The collection spans the club's history from 1904 through the Eusébio era and the back-to-back European Cups of the early 1960s, with trophies, shirts, boots and interactive displays. It covers the club's other sports too, since Benfica competes across many disciplines rather than football alone.

The museum sits inside the Estádio da Luz, and most visitors combine it with the stadium tour, which takes in the dressing rooms, the tunnel, the press areas and pitchside. Eusébio's statue stands outside the ground, and he is buried in the club's own mausoleum — a measure of what the man means in Portugal.

Matchdays alter access, so checking the fixture list before booking is worth the minute it takes.

Bookable options include museum admission tickets, combined stadium tour and museum entry, and formats bundling the ticket with a club scarf. For supporters visiting Lisbon, the combination is the obvious choice; the museum alone is thinner without the stadium. Current availability is shown below.