The Loulé Municipal Museum is one of 15 new members of the Portuguese Museum Network whose formal membership will take place on 4 April, in a ceremony scheduled for the Ajuda National Palace, in Lisbon, with the presence of the Minister of Culture.
These are the 15 museums whose accreditation processes took place between 2015 and 2019 and whose membership of the Portuguese Museum Network is now being formalized. THE membership of the Museu de Loulé had already been announced in 2017.
In addition to the Algarve structure, the Barroso Ecomuseum (montalegre), the Aveiro City Museum, the Elvas Contemporary Art Museum, the ISEP Museum (port), the MCCB – The Museum of All (Battle), will also be present. the MMIPO – Museum and Church of Misericórdia of Porto, the Douro Museum (Peso da Régua), the Lamas Museum (Santa Maria de Lamas), the Clérigos Tower (Porto), the National Railway Museum (Entroncamento), the CIAJG – José de Guimarães International Center for Arts (Guimarães), the Museum of the Hospital Center of Porto, the Museum of Health (Lisbon) and the Museum of Watercolor Roque Gameiro (Minde).
According to RPM, these most recent members «mirror, through the diversity of their typology, tutelage, dimension, location and collections, the diversity of the Network itself and, more than that, the richness of the Portuguese museum universe».
In this group of 15 new RPM members, there are two art museums, five territory museums, three science and technology museums, four thematic museums and a mixed and multidisciplinary museum.
There are also museums from the north to the south of the country, of a public and private nature, supervised by City Councils, Brotherhoods, Associations, Foundations and public university institutes, as well as museums installed in buildings created from scratch and museums installed in centenary buildings, whose museological program it is inseparable from the rehabilitation of architectural heritage.
«Finally, older museums and others that have just started their journey. In its enormous diversity, they all share, however, a characteristic, witnessed by their integration in RPM: the willingness to bet and see recognized the technical quality of the fulfillment of museological functions and also to integrate a structuring project of networking, which values each museum and its whole'.
From RPM, they were already part of the Museum of Portimão, the Municipal Museum of Archeology of Albufeira, the Municipal Museum of Faro and the Municipal Museum of Tavira.
List of museums now joining the RPM:
Barroso Ecomuseum
Aveiro City Museum
Elvas Museum of Contemporary Art
ISEP Museum
MCCB – The Museum of All
Loulé Municipal Museum
MMIPO – Museum and Church of Misericórdia of Porto
Douro Museum
Museum of Lamas
Clérigos Church
National Railway Museum
CIAJG – José de Guimarães International Center for the Arts
Porto Hospital Center Museum
Health Museum
Roque Gameiro Watercolor Museum
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