The official inauguration of the Museu do Tesouro Real [Museum of the Royal Treasure] in 2022 begs the question of which memories and inheritances are brought to the fore in the reconfiguration of the former metropolitan space of Lisbon. The newly created museum provides a permanent home for the material highlights of a monarchic past; at the same time, through a strategic curatorial display, such past is carefully inserted within a broader narrative that brings together the city’s singular and diverse cultural capital, its contemporary economic splendour, and its safety (for jewels and visitors alike). The main aim of this chapter is to question the visual economy of shining presences in the articulation of processes and practices of worldmaking. Following Krista Thompson, the chapter asks what happens when we place the visual economy of shining presences at the centre of current debates on the consequences and afterlives of colonialism within and beyond the Portuguese-speaking world. Through an examination of shining objects, images, and bodies, the chapter highlights the fact that that a debate on decolonisation only makes sense if multiple forms of “shining” in public (instead that just these mobilised by official instances) are taken into consideration.