CR7 Museum Funchal: The Cristiano Ronaldo Museum

Visit Madeira describes an exhibition area of 400 square metres that opened on 15 December 2013 in one of the most touristy areas of Funchal. The museum's own site names the sections: A Life in Trophies, Golden Boots, Ballon d'Or, Club Trophies, Fan Mail, the Augmented Reality Virtual Photo, and Memorabilia. The header of the museum's site counts the headline prizes: 5 Ballon d'Or, 5 Champions Leagues, 4 Golden Boots and 3 UEFA Best Player awards.

Photographs, videos and interactive content fill the space between the cases.

Ballons D'Or And Golden Boots

The two trophy cabinets most people come for sit at the heart of the museum. Visit Madeira lists the exact seasons and years, which we set out below alongside the team honours counted on the museum's own site. The Champions League and UEFA Best Player years are not broken down by either source, so we print only the counts.

Club And Country Trophies

A Life in Trophies covers every youth and professional trophy, starting from his first steps in football in Madeira. Visit Madeira counts more than a hundred individual and collective trophies won for the national team and for the clubs Andorinha and Nacional in Madeira, Sporting in Lisbon, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus. The Club Trophies section includes the five UEFA Champions Leagues.

For a follower of the sport it is a compressed career history, told in silverware rather than words.

The Wax Statue, Fan Mail And The Virtual Photo

Three displays give the museum its lighter moments. A wax statue of Ronaldo stands among the exhibits. The Fan Mail section collects letters, drawings and paintings that fans worldwide have sent as tributes.

The Augmented Reality Virtual Photo lets you take a picture as if Ronaldo were standing beside you, which is the souvenir most families leave with. Memorabilia cases hold jerseys, boots, photographs and other objects from his career.

The museum's own site and Visit Madeira agree on the hours: Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 17:00. Neither source lists Sunday. We therefore treat Sunday as not open rather than guessing at extra hours, and plan a Sunday in Funchal around places that do publish Sunday times.

Blandy's Wine Lodge opens Sunday 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-18:00, and the Madeira Botanical Garden opens daily 09:00-18:00. The museum adds one caution on its own site: in case of occasional closures, information will be shared on social media in advance. Its channels are facebook.com/MuseuCr7 and instagram.com/museucr7funchal, worth a look the morning you plan to go.

The phone number, if you prefer to ask directly, is +351 291 639 880. No public holiday closures appear on either source.

Here is the honest answer: no entry price is published. The museum's own site carries no ticket price anywhere on it. Visit Madeira's official listing, which usually carries fees for attractions, also publishes none.

So this page prints no price, because printing a guess would be worse than printing nothing. What you should do is simple. Turn up at the desk inside the museum and ask, or call +351 291 639 880 before you set out.

Nobody describes the museum as free, so budget for a ticket. If you want a firm number before you travel, the museum's social media accounts are the channel the museum itself points to for updates. Compare that with other city sights: the Municipal Garden is free, the Funchal-Monte cable car publishes a one-way fare of $18.37 (€16) and a return of $25.30 (€22), and Blandy's lodge tours start from $19.52 (€17).

A small museum run privately can set its own price, and this one simply does not publish it online.

The right amount of time depends on how much of a fan you are. A casual visitor who reads a few labels and takes the virtual photo moves through quickly. A football follower who studies every trophy and the fan mail wall needs longer.

Because the museum sits on the seafront, it also slots easily into a wider morning out. The table gives three plans.

The address is Av. Sá Carneiro, Praça do Mar 27, 9004-518 Funchal, which Visit Madeira calls one of the most touristy areas of the city, and OpenStreetMap names the square outside Praça CR7. The table below gives the ways in that cost money, with the fares as the airport bus operator and the cable car company publish them.

From the eastern end of the seafront, where the Funchal-Monte cable car has its lower station, the museum lies along the waterfront to the west. Cruise passengers and guests staying in the centre usually reach it as part of a flat seafront walk, which is laid out on our Funchal walks page.

Visit Madeira lists lift, access ramps and adapted bathrooms for the museum, which covers wheelchair users and pushchairs for the exhibition floor. The seafront location is flat, so reaching the door involves no hills. For children the draws are obvious even for those too young to remember the trophies: the wax statue, the rows of gold boots and the augmented-reality photo where they appear beside Ronaldo.

The 400 square metre floor can be covered at a child's pace, and the interactive content Visit Madeira mentions helps hold attention. Combine it with Santa Catarina Park next to the port for a run around afterwards. For more family ideas see Madeira with kids.

For a football fan, yes without much debate. Five Ballons d'Or and four Golden Boots in one room is a collection few players can match, and the club trophies span Andorinha and Nacional in Madeira, Sporting, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus. Visit Madeira counts more than a hundred trophies in total plus photographs, videos and interactive content.

For a family with mixed interests the calculus is different. The museum is small at 400 square metres, so the visit costs an hour or so rather than a day, and the augmented-reality photo gives non-supporters something to enjoy. The open question is price, since no figure is published and you only learn it at the desk.

Our view: it earns its slot on a Funchal seafront morning for anyone with interest in the sport, and it is short enough that it costs little time even for those without.

• The clubs before the fame are on show: trophies won for Andorinha and Nacional in Madeira and Sporting in Lisbon stand alongside the Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus silverware [Visit Madeira].
• Fans write, draw and paint tributes that the museum displays in its Fan Mail section, so part of the collection is made by visitors like you [Museu CR7 official site].
• The square outside is formally named Praça CR7 in OpenStreetMap data, at coordinates 32.64364,-16.91404 [OpenStreetMap].
• The museum runs an online store at cr7museumstore.com, separate from the exhibition [Museu CR7 official site].
• The airport you probably arrived at carries his name: Cristiano Ronaldo Airport, also known as Madeira Airport, 19.1 km from Funchal [Visit Funchal].

The museum opens at 10:00, so a natural plan starts there, then moves west or east along the flat seafront. One morning version: museum at opening, Santa Catarina Park viewpoint over the port, the Municipal Garden on Avenida Arriaga, then a Blandy's lodge tour, whose first tours run from late morning and which unlike the museum opens on Sunday afternoons too. Another version goes east instead, along the promenade to the Old Town and the lower station of the Funchal-Monte cable car, one way $18.37 (€16), return $25.30 (€22), for the ride up to Monte.

Football-first visitors could also build a whole arrival day around the name: you land at Cristiano Ronaldo Airport, 19.1 km from the city, ride the Aerobus to Avenida do Mar, and walk the last stretch to Praça CR7. On a Sunday, when the museum is not listed as open, swap it for the Madeira Botanical Garden, which opens daily 09:00-18:00 with entry at $11.48 (€10) over 12. For more frameworks see things to do in Madeira, Madeira in 3 days or the free things to do in Madeira list.