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Que pena, o museu está fechado.

Que pena, o museu está fechado.
What a pity, the museum is closed.
From Lesson 185:As fórmulas de todos os dias (está lá, as melhoras)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about Que pena, o museu está fechado.

Why is there no word for "a" in Que pena?
In Portuguese, exclamations starting with Que followed by a noun don't use an indefinite article (um or uma). While in English we say "What a pity!", in Portuguese you simply say Que pena. You will also see this in phrases like Que surpresa! (What a surprise!).
Why does this sentence use está instead of é for "is"?
We use está (from the verb estar) because being closed is a temporary state. The museum isn't permanently closed forever as a core characteristic (which would use the verb ser); it is just closed right now, perhaps for the day or the weekend.
Does the word fechado change depending on what is closed?
Yes! Here, fechado acts as an adjective describing o museu. Because museu is a masculine, singular noun, fechado ends in -o. If you were talking about a shop (a loja, which is feminine), you would say A loja está fechada.
Is fechado related to a verb?
Yes, it is the past participle of the verb fechar (to close). Just like in English, you can take a verb like "close" and use its past form "closed" to describe the state of a noun.

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