The museum is located in Fermentões and is, by its general characteristics, an agricultural museum, in fact, a Community Museum.

The building, whose patron was the parish priest João Fernandes Machado, was built in the 1940s as a Primary School, a function it performed until the early 1980s.

The idea of ​​creating a Museum arose during the initiatives to create a Casa do Povo, in the Parish of Fermentões, from the existing Associative Movement, the Cultural and Recreational Center of Fermentões, when the Community was motivated, around 1972, so that the Farmers and Rural Workers of the Parish could become beneficiaries of the various Social Security Services.

It was then, in the various contacts made with the farmers of Fermentão, that they began to collect agricultural implements that, at times of certain modernization of agriculture, were already thrown to destruction, and began to be stored, without knowing well the destiny that would give them to them.

With the creation of the Casa do Povo de Fermentões, in January 1977, it was decided to organize the “Day of the Casa do Povo” annually, the Saturday before the first Sunday of September, with a “Festival of the Fermentões Farmer”, the first one was held in September 1977, and the program included an “Exhibition of Agricultural Antiques”, in a room of the then Primary School, a very successful initiative and appreciated by the Fermentões Population.

In this context, the management of the Casa do Povo de Fermentões decided to promote the necessary initiatives for the creation of a “Fermentões Agricultural Tools Museum” in the Community of Fermentões.

The enthusiasm generated by the success of the first event, in 1977, and subsequently in the following years, motivated the citizens of Fermentões to transfer to the Museum many of what are still the majority of the pieces in the existing museum collection, and the truth is that the collection was also enriched by the purchase of pieces at auction.
However, later, with works carried out in the spaces that were previously the School Playground, more rooms were created and the Museum was renamed the Fermentões Agricultural Museum.

The Museum has several rooms where you can see pieces linked to the work and agricultural life of the region, as well as a large photographic and documentary collection, highlighting the following exhibitions: The Craftsman, with the Carpentry and Blacksmith Workshop; The Vineyard and the Wine, with an excellent exhibition of artistic cups; Lino’s work; The Bread, the Water Mills; The Farmer’s Kitchen; The Bedroom; A space for periodic exhibitions and the Museum Shop. A vast and rich collection represented in a few hundred pieces, which indelibly mark the hard work of the People of Our Land.