Ferreira de Castro Museum, located in the Parish of Saint Martin (Sintra), came as a result of the donation made by the writer of his estate to the People of Sintra.
The Museum opened its doors on June 6, 1982. Closed for renovations three years later, would reopen on July 22, 1992, after remodeling of the exhibition contents and preparation of a new visitor's guide.
Ferreira de Castro Museum presents chronologically the existential journey of the writer, grouped into seven themes:
"Childhood" (1898-1911), refers to the writer's childhood in "native village" in the Willows, Ossela parish, municipality of Oliveira de Azemeis, a period of intimate contact with the verdant nature of the region, which would mark both it.
"In Brazil - The Amazon jungle to Belem do Para" (1911-1919), recounts the time when Ferreira de Castro lived as a child and alone in a rubber plantation in the Amazon (until 1914) and experience in dramatic and convoluted Of Bethlehem many objects of interest displayed by highlighting the manuscript for Criminal Ambition, Parintintins masks of the Indians (now extinct tribe) land of the plantation where Castro worked, and for copies of Criminal Greed and Alma Lusitana, both of 1916, the first titles he published.
"The Return - Journalism and work renegade" (1919-1927), shows part of the journalistic activity and displays the books that match the first phase Ferreira de Castro - Mas ... (1921) The Flight in the Dark (1927) - which he removed from his complete works which today are bibliographic rarities.
"Triumph - From Emigrants to the direction of the Devil" (1928-1935), "The Last Wanderer" (Travel, 1929-1939), "The Master - The Storm From the Fragments" (1940-1974) include the time Ferreira de Castro who reigned as the preeminent author of Portugal then. It is the period of The Jungle, Cold Land, Wool and Snow, Curve Road, Mission ...
The Portuguese writer translated most of his time in the last room were exposed to translations of his works in several languages.
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