The Alvarinho Museum, a cultural facility managed by the Municipality of Monção, aims to make known to its visitors the “Cradle of Alvarinho”, its territory and its people. Its mission is to reveal new knowledge essential to the understanding and understanding of a unique wine and to promote the Alvarinho brand, from the Monção and Melgaço sub-region, in a Living Museum, which promotes knowledge of wine products, the region's built heritage, as well as such as the dissemination of other heritages in an ecological and sustainable way. Through its museum exhibition, the Alvarinho Museum intends to promote the Monção and Melgaço sub-region as a unique territory for the production of Alvarinho wine, and to promote it as a high quality gastronomic product. It is also intended that the Alvarinho Museum makes known the ethnographic potential, their knowledge and traditions of our ancestors, as protagonists of the development of a Territory. The Alvarinho Museum's main objective is to encourage the protection of heritage and local identity. (automatic translation)