“Overcoming Distance: Five Centuries of Communications in Portugal” is more than a journey through history; it is an exhibition – organised into two parts, one dedicated to the post and the other to telecommunications – on the evolution and improvement in techniques that allowed man to communicate more quickly and efficiently. It is a trek along a journey constructed step by step which reveals the importance of communications in transforming our daily life and in the economic and social development of the community.

House of the Future is a registered trademark of the FPC in which the concept of the future is permanently updated, benefitting from the work undertaken in partnership with different institutions linked to the technological innovation sector with the constant and special mission to disseminate the importance of the communications sector for civil society. New housing concepts and solutions with a major impact on people’s wellbeing are presented. The exhibition accumulates know-how and builds on the knowledge of earlier stages.

Opened in 2004 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the end of the first era of the post rider service (Lisbon to Coimbra, 1798-1804), this exhibition recreates life-size scenarios associated with the transport of mail and people at one of the so-called staging posts at the end of the 18th and start of the 19th century. The models of the employees and passengers appear to have been frozen in time and liable to return to life at any moment.