Attractions
Colonial-era fortresses, lighthouses, and museums.
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The Maritime Museum, finished in 1990 on the [Barra waterfront](/macau/destinations/barra-neighborhood/), is shaped as a stylised vessel facing the [A-Ma Temple](/macau/attractions/a-ma-temple/) across the old shoreline.
The [Guia Hill](/macau/destinations/guia-neighborhood/) Trail circles the peninsula's 91-metre summit past the fortress ramparts, the 1622 chapel and the oldest lighthouse on the China coast.
The Museum of Nature & Agriculture occupies a restored [Coloane](/macau/destinations/coloane-island/) village building, lime-washed masonry under terracotta, tracking Macau's farming past.
[Guia Hill](/macau/destinations/guia-neighborhood/) Park wraps the 1622-38 fortress on the peninsula's summit, with stone ramparts, tunnels, the Guia Chapel and the 15-metre lighthouse.
The Macau Museum is built into [Monte Fort](/macau/attractions/monte-fort/), two of its three levels sunk beneath the 1617-26 plateau so the Jesuit stonework above stays intact.
Lou Kau Mansion of 1889 is a grey-brick Cantonese shophouse on Travessa da Sé, three bays deep round a ventilating atrium under arched Western windows.
The Fire Services Museum occupies a 1920 neoclassical fire station, its original plan retained around a collection of vintage firefighting apparatus.
The Communications Museum opened in 2006 under Macao Post — three functionalist storeys splitting postal history from telecommunications galleries.
Guia Fortress crowns the peninsula's 91-metre high point — a 1622-38 bastioned fort, a chapel with Sino-European frescoes, and an 1865 lighthouse.
Monte Fort covers 10,000 m² on Mount Hill — Jesuit-built 1617-26, nine-metre walls faced in 3.6 metres of granite, laid out for 32 bronze cannon.
The Museum of Sacred Art and Crypt sits under the Ruins of St Paul's, a granite undercroft holding the relics of Japanese and Vietnamese martyrs.
The Grand Prix Museum reopened in 2021 across 16,000 m² and four levels, floor-loaded to carry retired Formula 3 cars and Guia Circuit tourers.
The Handover Gifts Museum holds the ceremonial gifts from China's 56 ethnic groups and its provinces, marking the 1999 transfer of sovereignty.
The Macau Wine Museum opened in 1995 in ZAPE with 1,400 m² and over 1,100 wines, some 17th-century, tracing the Lisbon-to-Macau trade route.