Aquário da Madeira
Porto Moniz
Twelve tanks of Madeiran and Macaronesian sea life - groupers, moray eels, more than ninety native species - inside a rebuilt 18th-century fort by the Porto Moniz lava pools.
- Indoors
- Ages 2-10
- Children from 4 €
Museums and animals
Whales, monkeys, sharks in a tank, sugar under a glass floor and science you are allowed to touch - the wet-weather half of the island.
Museu Quinta das Cruzes
Funchal
A manor-house museum uphill from the cathedral whose romantic garden - stonework, old trees, a small chapel - is free to walk and open to anyone.
- Partly covered
- From 2
- Children free
Quinta Pedagógica dos Prazeres
Calheta
A working teaching farm at Prazeres with ponies, donkeys, goats, rabbits and birds, an orchard and herb garden, and a tea house that serves its own produce.
- Outdoors
- Ages 1-8
- No price published
Prices and opening times change without notice, and on this island they change often. Everything here carries the date it was checked in our research notes; if a place has moved or closed, tell us and we will fix it.