A the program also includes Chinese shadow theater, visits to museum reserves, various workshops and debates, with free entry to the different institutions open on Museum Night, marked after regular hours, and on International Museum Day.
At the Museu Nacional dos Coches, a day full of activities includes, on Saturday, at 7.30 pm, a guided tour of the collections of the former Royal Riding School. Also in this museum, in Lisbon, on the 14th, between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm, a concentration of vintage cars is planned, in Praça do Museu, and, on the 18th, between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm: 00, the ‘peddy paper’ “Portrait Hunt”. On the 20th, between 10:00 am and 12:30 pm, there will be a technical visit “Conversations around the construction of a coach, appreciated in natural scale 1/1 and reduced 1/10”.
Another Lisbon museum, the Music Museum, at the Metro station in Alto dos Moinhos, on Saturday, at 20:30, there is the show “The Italian Opera in the Chamber Hall”, by Yuri Marchese, on the classical guitar, and Taíssa Poliakova Marchese, on piano. On the 18th, at 18:00, the concert “The mythological harpsichord”, by Anne Marie Dragosits, takes place at the Taskin harpsichord, from 1782, classified as a “national treasure”.
International Museum Day is an initiative of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), which has been held since 1977.
This initiative and the Night of Museums “are promoted in Portugal by the DGPC, through an invitation to museum spaces (integrated in the) Portuguese Museum Network to carry out activities aimed at the public, with a generalized offer that can range from concerts, to visits guided and staged, theater and dance shows, gatherings and debates”.
“Museums, Sustainability and Well-Being” was the theme chosen by ICOM to celebrate this year’s Museum Day, given that “they are spaces that transform society par excellence, with the potential to ensure health and well-being at all ages, above all promoting mental health and combating social isolation”.
Among other activities, the Palácio da Ajuda, former royal residence, on Saturday, between 7 pm and 8 pm, proposes the historical recreation “D. Luís: a musical visit to the Palácio da Ajuda”. On the day of museums in the palace, in the morning, a “Fencing Encounter in O Meu Palácio!” is proposed.
The DGPC wants these two dates to motivate “awareness, debate, knowledge and education forums on matters related to the fight against climate change and for prevention measures, action and protection of ecosystems and biodiversity”.
Next Saturday, at 18:00, the Museu Nacional do Traje proposes a guided tour under the motto “Reservations: what our wardrobes hide…” and, between 18:00 and 20:30, a ‘workshop ‘ “on the dyeing plants of the Monteiro-Mor park, attached to the palace where the museum is installed”.
The different activities of monuments, palaces and museums under the supervision of the DGPC for the European Night of Museums and the International Day of Museums, on the 13th and 18th of May respectively, are on the online platform International Day of Museums | DIM (patrimoniocultural.pt).
In the European Night, next Saturday, the museums, monuments and palaces protected by the DGPC, will have free entry after closing time.
However, the monasteries of Batalha, Alcobaça and Jerónimos, in Lisbon, will be closed on this occasion, as well as the national museums of Archeology and Contemporary Art, in the capital, the Monographic Museum of Conimbriga, in Condeixa-a-Velha (Coimbra), the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom, in Peniche (Leiria), and also the National Pantheon and the Belém Tower, in Lisbon.
On International Museum Day, the National Museum of Resistance and Freedom will also be closed.
Entry is free, on the 18th, at all other museums in the Portuguese Museum Network.
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