The works of the Municipal Museum of Lagos will start in February and should be completed by the end of the year. That cultural facility ended in September for the preparation of these rehabilitation and expansion interventions.
Meanwhile, the Church of Santo António, which adjoins it, will remain open to the public.
This intervention aims to rehabilitate and remodel the Dr. José Formosinho Municipal Museum building, completing a process that began with the rehabilitation of the Church of Santo António.
«The projected remodeling is profound and has implications for almost all the components of your space, whether they are floors, walls, ceilings or openings, special installations or equipment and exhibition furniture. The building's roof will also be repaired, thus correcting the existing anomalies», says the Câmara de Lagos.
With the intervention, the building will be «equipped with accessibility conditions for people with reduced mobility.
The contract was awarded for the amount of 691 thousand euros, plus VAT, is in the contract formation stage, and is expected to start in February.
It is expected that the completion of the rehabilitation and expansion works, which will “contribute to the enhancement of the José Formosinho Municipal Museum and to the attractiveness of this museological equipment and of the Church of Santo António itself (which in this period will remain visitable), will take place in the end of this year”, says the municipality.
Afterwards, “the estate will still have to be transferred to the renovated premises according to a museographic program to be established, and which will mark the end of this first phase. Subsequently, a second phase will be carried out, which concerns the expansion of the Museum to the former premises of the PSP, a place that will house the Núcleo de Arqueologia».
This Municipal Museum, which marked its 23th anniversary on August 2017, 87, «earned on national and international recognition».
«In the Algarve, it was, for a long time, one of the few existing museum institutions; its multidisciplinary collections, of great historical and cultural value, have attracted people from different sociocultural backgrounds, some of them scientifically proven».
«Its vocation as a Regional Museum was fundamental in making known the valuable archaeological collection of Lagos and the neighboring counties, which enriches and fills the city and region with pride, but also other resources that have incorporated sections of equal importance, such as the Ethnographic and Natural History, which continues, even today, to be the target of donations, proof of the affection that the museum deserves from many citizens», concludes the City Council.
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