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New Portimao museum
• 22 May 2008 •
 PORTIMAO’S new municipal museum was inaugurated last week by the Minister of Culture, Pinto Ribeiro. The Museum is housed in an old sardine canning factory and it hosts regular, as well as temporary exhibitions that cover art, history and general culture, all of a local and national content. On permanent show are a large selection of donated artefacts from the region, such as industrial equipment, photographs, documents and archaeological and naval pieces, among others. A local fishing boat, built in Galiza, in 1911 and restored by Portimao Town Council is being exhibited outside the museum.
Visibly impressed by the new infrastructure, the Culture Minister said he believed that this was one of the best industrial museums in Europe, adding that the government would be happy to sponsor an eventual candidacy of the Portimao Museum to a European culture heritage award. Pinto Ribeiro said, “The State would support the candidacy to a European award, because of the great quality of the museum, which places it at the same level of the best ones in Europe.”
Portimao Mayor, Manuel da Luz, stressed that the museum aims also to preserve the history of a city that, for many years, had the fish-canning industry as one of its main business activities. The Museum was installed at the old Feu Hermanos factory which produced ‘La Rose’ canned sardines, one of Portugal’s most famous brands of the 20th century. “It is a space that keeps alive the memory of all those who have spent all their lives working for the fish-canning industry,” the Mayor said. Located next to the cruise ship port, in front of the Arade River, the building also houses a Documentation Centre and a Historical Archive. There is also a section dedicated Teixeira Gomes, a Portimao-born intellectual and businessman, who was one of the Presidents of the Portuguese Republic.
Work on the new museum took almost four years. The ceremony for the launching of the project, in August 2004, was attended by Brazil’s Culture Minister, Gilberto Gil. |  Return to Top
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