The catalog of exhibition “LOULÉ: Territories, Memories, Identities” is presented on the 1st of February, the date that marks the 30th anniversary of the city of Loulé, from 18 pm, in the Salão Nobre dos Paços do Concelho.
This session will be attended by Vítor Aleixo, president of the Loulé Chamber, António Carvalho, director of the National Museum of Archeology, and Duarte Azinheira, director of the Publications Unit of the National Press Casa da Moeda.
The presence of Paula Araújo da Silva, director-general of Cultural Heritage, is to be confirmed.
This catalog is the result of all the scientific research created from the collections on display and results in the compilation of 29 texts by 31 authors and the presentation of files on the objects carried out by 25 authors.
Open to the public since June 2017, at the emblematic Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, this exhibition has already attracted more than 100 visitors, a number that illustrates the interest it is arousing.
“LOULÉ: Territories. Memoirs. Identities” was born from a protocol between the Loulé City Council and the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage, celebrated on March 8, 2016, at the National Archeology Museum, and which is part of the long tradition of cooperation between this museum and local authorities, started 20 years ago, and this is the 22nd exhibition of this nature to occupy the Jerónimos Monastery.
This exhibition introduces visitors to the more than seven thousand years of history of the municipality's territory and portrays the occupation strategies of Man throughout the ages, in the mountains, the barrocal and the coast, of the most extensive municipality in the Algarve.
Also in this exhibition are the results of the paleontology excavations taking place at Rocha da Pena, coordinated by paleontologist Octávio Mateus, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and which revealed to us, in Portuguese territory, the first specimen of the metoposaurus amphibian, which was named after algarvensis, and a phytosaur, allowing us to look at the territory that is today Loulé 227 million years ago, in the Triassic.
To set up this exhibition, a total of 1200 cultural assets were inventoried. 504 were selected and 166 restored.
This work made it possible to update the Endovélico database of 153 archaeological sites in the municipality and to present 141 archaeological sites in the exhibition's temporal arc.
The cultural assets come from 12 different institutions, among which the Municipal Museum of Loulé and the National Museum of Archeology stand out, holders of most of the pieces in the exhibition, to which are added the Museum and Archaeological Station of Cerro da Vila – in Vilamoura –, the Municipal Archive of Loulé, the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, the Municipal Museum of Faro, the Dr. Santos Rocha Municipal Museum in Figueira da Foz, the Albufeira Municipal Museum of Archeology, the Silves Municipal Archeology Museum, the University of Algarve, the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidade Nova and the Lourinhã Museum.
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