This museum features objects from all areas of optics, acquired all around the world, and have been collected from the 1960s until nowadays.
[1] In the 1960s, the love for engineering and history led one person - Rui Aguilar - to start collecting optics related devices.
Initially without a defined purpose of creating a museum, the collection kept growing progressively until nowadays.
Currently, Rui and Sérgio Aguilar work together in the selection, acquisition cataloguing and preparation of every accession and on the organization of the physical area of the museum.
Recently this building has been subject to minor interior and exterior restoration works with the supervision of Funchal's city hall that targeted the requalification of the museum area and surroundings.