The exhibition “Loulé: Territories, Memories, Identities”, on display at the National Archeology Museum, located in the Jerónimos Monastery, in Lisbon, can now be visited using audio-guides and audio-description. The visitor can make an autonomous visit, without appointment of date and time, using the free audio-guide equipment.
In a pioneering and innovative way in temporary exhibitions, “Loulé: Territories, Memories and Identities” is now an audio-described exhibition, a fundamental tool for low-sighted and blind audiences, another step on the path traced in improving accessibility.
In addition to the availability of this equipment, it is possible to carry out audio-described visits, upon request to the email [email protected]. So far, there have been two visits with audio-descriptors, adds the Câmara de Loulé, one of the main promoters of this exhibition.
“Loulé: territories, memories and identities” «accessibility is yet another essential aspect in the construction of the exhibition and its cultural dynamism, in order to allow access to different audiences, namely with tactile pieces, materials in simple language, materials in Braille and access to people with reduced mobility», explains the municipality.
Organized by the National Archeology and Municipal Museums of Loulé, the exhibition “Loulé: Territories, Memories and Identities”, open to the public since June of last year, in the emblematic Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, has had more than 100 visitors since its inauguration, a figure that clearly illustrates the interest it is arousing.
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, in the Algarve municipality with the largest territorial area.
Also noteworthy are the results of the paleontology excavations taking place at Rocha da Pena (Salir), coordinated by paleontologist Octávio Mateus, from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, which revealed, in Portuguese territory, the first specimen of the amphibian Metoposaurus, 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 objects were inventoried, of which 504 were selected to be exhibited, and 166 were restored.
The cultural assets come from 12 different institutions, among which, in addition to the National Museum of Archeology, the Municipal Museum and the Historical Archive of Loulé and the Museum and Archaeological Station of Cerro da Vila (in Vilamoura) stand out, which lent more than 80% of the pieces in the exhibition, to which are added the UNIARQ-Archaeological Center of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, the Municipal Museum of Faro, the Municipal Museum of Figueira da Foz, the Municipal Museum of Archeology of Albufeira, the Municipal Museum of Archeology of Silves, the University of Algarve, the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidade Nova and the Museum of Lourinhã.
«Loulé. Territories, Memories, Identities»
Location: National Archeology Museum, Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, from 10.00 am to 12.00 pm and from 14.00 pm to 18.00 pm
Until December 30, 2018
Entry: 5 euros; 2,5 euros for students, seniors, large families and family ticket; free on the first Sunday of the month, up to 12 years old and for people with reduced mobility.
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