Museums are closed to physical visits, but open to virtual visits and a huge range of activities that can be done at home. This is the response of the Algarve Museum Network (RMA) to the «times of distance and closure caused by Covid-19».
In a first phase, the Network, under the motto «Times of Distance, Other Modes of Proximity», highlights «all the inspiring creativity of the projects already available, from the Algarve Museum Guide itself (which can be downloaded in PDF here), to the initiatives of the Live Science Center of the Algarve, the Museum of Portimão, the Municipal Museum of Faro, the Lagos Museum – Slavery Route Nucleus, the São Brás de Alportel Costume Museum and the Loulé Municipal Museum.
On site https://rma-museusdoalgarve.yolasite.com/, created on purpose for these strange times, can be clicked on to access what each of these six museological structures have to offer their audience, now confined to their home.
And so it is known that the Centro Ciência Viva do Algarve, located in Faro, is publishing daily small videos of recreational and scientific activities, under the hashtag #pequenoscientistasemcasa. These videos are available at CCVAlg youtube channel.
O Portimão Museum reinforced and centralized its online content offer, where it offers videos, activities and even challenges. There were even specific proposals for Easter.
The Municipal Museum of Faro (and the Regional Museum) prepared initiatives for the whole family, from the little ones to the older ones. The entire Museum team participates, from the Educational Services, to the Research team and the Restoration team, with the motto “entering each one's home”. Now in a more digital aspect, the Municipal Museum and the Regional Museum «will continue to present cultural contents, far from their buildings, but close to their audience». The activities are being presented on your facebook page.
The Lagos Museum has already available online a virtual visit to the Slave Market – Slave Route Nucleus. These virtual tours are applications, available for Android (available here on the Google Store, for free download) or for iOS (available here).
The Costume Museum of São Brás de Alportel promotes, on your website, suggestions for virtual visits to your space, but also to other national and international museums, online debates and events, as well as useful suggestions for a quarantine context. Museu do Traje is "at this moment making efforts to initiate a debate/reflection on the role of museums in a context like the one we live in today" and is interested in "promoting post-Covid-19 reflection".
The Loulé Municipal Museum team says that “it continues to work to rescue our history and to bring it to you”. For this, and to promote the "sharing of knowledge and in the work of strengthening the cultural identity of our communities", provides various content on its Facebook page.
The Algarve Museums Network «salutes all museum professionals and entities of the Algarve's cultural and natural heritage, who have been maintaining a service of proximity to their various audiences, audiences and friends, through other forms and strategies of digital interaction ».
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