The Tram Museum's mission is to preserve, conserve and interpret, for the benefit of the public, specimens and artefacts that illustrate and represent the history and development of urban public transport on rails in the city of Porto. By researching and exhibiting its collections, organising exhibitions and cultural programmes, the Museu do Carro Eléctrico offers its public the opportunity to learn, experience and get to know the history, development and socio-economic impact of public transport on rails in the city of Porto.