Michel Giacometti Museum of Work

The Museu do Trabalho Michel Giacometti fills the old Perienes fish-canning factory in Setúbal. Canning once defined the city's waterfront, and the museum tells that story from the factory floor. You step into preserved production spaces and find machines standing where the work once ran.

The displays set machinery, tools and printed canning labels beside the testimony of the workers themselves, recorded in their own words. The voices carry both the skill of the trade and the hard conditions behind it. The wider ethnographic collections draw on Michel Giacometti's fieldwork, linking industrial labour with rural trades across Portugal. They gather the everyday objects that once kept factories, farms and families moving. A recreated traditional grocery shop rounds out the visit with a corner of everyday life.

It remains one of Setúbal's genuine hidden gems. The reason is simple: sea, factory and family form one story here, told by the people who built the modern city.