The Soares dos Reis National Museum is on the list of the most searched Portuguese museums online, topping the table in the north and only beaten by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the National Tile Museum and the National Museum of Ancient Art.
According to the survey carried out by Preply, an international language-learning platform, the three most popular museums online are located in Lisbon, while the Soares dos Reis National Museum, in Porto, came fourth, followed by the Navy Museum; the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology; the National Costume Museum; the Carris Museum; the Royal Treasury Museum and the National Museum of Natural History and Science, all located in Lisbon.
Internet searches for museums in Portugal increased by 50 per cent in 2023. Demand for specific exhibitions and installations has also been outstanding, with Preply indicating that the highlight was the search for ‘interactive experiences such as “Dalí: Cybernetics” and “Frida Kahlo, the Immersive Biography”’.
Preply’s research also sought to find out which foreign museums the Portuguese search for most on the internet and concluded that the Louvre Museum in Paris leads the searches, followed by the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Orsay Museum, also in Paris, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Officially presented on 13 April 2023, when the Soares dos Reis National Museum fully reopened, the museum’s official website has so far totalled 127,000 users, with more than 423,000 page views and more than 1 million registered events.