No presente artigo pretende-se dar uma panorâmica dos museus da técnica e da indústria existentes em Portugal. São considerados os casos mais relevantes no panorama nacional e realizada uma breve reflexão sobre o papel desses museus na preservação da memória industrial, na educação e na difusão da cultura técnico-industrial. Apresentaremos também uma breve abordagem sobre a forma como desde o século XIX se equacionou, em Portugal, a criação de museus industriais no âmbito das reformas do ensino técnico, do processo de industrialização e no seguimento das exposições universais e internacionais.

<p class="Abstracttext-VITRUVIO">This paper aims to be a contribution to establish a position to the reuse of obsolete railway buildings in the field of circular construction. Recent discussions argue that considering that the circular economy is only related to the use of materials or waste is a misconception. The reuse of buildings is also an issue circular architecture. The European Union itself, since 2002, supports the Programme ESPON - European Territorial Cooperation Programme, which incisively inserts obsolete buildings in the "spirit of the circular economy", giving greater attention to industrial areas undergoing change and deindustrialisation. Considering that the concepts of circular construction and circular architecture originated in the circular economy, which emerged as a way to promote and ensure urban sustainability, this article addresses in a first moment the concept of circular construction from the first documents developed in the context of sustainable development to the latest policies proposed by ESPON. It also analyses the reuse of obsolete railway spaces based on the analysis of some emblematic examples of reuse, namely the <em>Musée d'Orsay</em> and the <em>Promenade Plantée</em> in Paris. These two examples represent different types of railway infrastructure and their fate will frame the reuse of railway buildings within the concept of circular construction.</p>

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