Campo Pequeno Museum

The Campo Pequeno Museum is located at the Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno¹ and was founded in 1937. By that time, the whole collection was stolen and the police forces were unable to find it. It would pass 78 years until the Campo Pequeno have again something worth of calling it a Museum.

On the June 1^st, 2015, the museum reopened to the public with the important mission of divulging the bullfighting culture in Portugal and the iconic history of this bullfighting square.

The Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno¹ was inaugurated on the August 18^th of 1892 with a bull that came from the livestock breeding named Emílio Infante da Câmara. However, the first documental mentions to this place go back to 1741. In the opening poster appeared names such as Alfredo Tinoco (knight), Roberto da Fonseca or Felipe Aragón Minuto, both banderilleros. It is told that in this bullfight, due to the strength of the selected bulls, the actors took on more conservative postures and didn't give in to the traditional risks that make the crowd go delirious.

Translation references

1. Bullfighting Square of Campo Pequeno