Museu Do Oriente

Lisbon’s new kid on the dock is the stunning Museu do Oriente, highlighting Portugal’s ties with Asia from colonial baby steps in Macau to ancestor worship. The cavernous museum occupies a revamped 1940s bacalhau warehouse. Strikingly displayed in pitch-black rooms, the permanent collection focuses on Portuguese presence in Asia, and Asian gods. Standouts on the 1st floor feature rare Chinese screens and Ming porcelain, plus East Timor curiosities such as the divining conch and delicately carved umbilical-cord knives. Upstairs, cult classics include peacock-feathered effigies of Yellamma (goddess of the fallen), Vietnamese medium costumes and an eerie, faceless Nepalese ­exorcism doll