直到1958年，孫中山原配夫人盧慕貞喺文第士街嘅居所被改做澳門國父紀念館之後，博物館嘅發展先得以恢復，同時亦標誌著非公營博物館嘅開始；而公營博物館嘅復興就要等到1960年賈梅士博物館（依家東方基金會會址）嘅啟用。但喺往後嘅30年，博物館喺澳門嘅發展就一直處於緩滯狀態——至1990年前，全澳門嘅博物館數量最高峯都係唔夠5間。
It was not until 1958, when the residence of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's wife, Lo Mo Ching, was converted into the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Macau that the development of the museum was restored, marking the beginning of a non-public museum revival that took place in 1960 with the opening of the Camões Museum (now the Oriental Foundation). However, in the following 30 years, the development of museums in Macao has been in a state of stagnation – by 1990, the number of museums in Macao peaked at less than five.