The "continuing" works of the Albufeira Municipal Museum of Archeology, which will cost 1 million euros, will start "within a short time", after having already been "attended and awarded", he revealed to Sul Informação the mayor of this Algarve city.
The works will make it possible to integrate, in the museum's space, the so-called «Camera backyard», which is at the back and where there are ruins of the old parish church in Albufeira.
José Carlos Rolo added, in his statements to our newspaper, that it will be a “difficult work, with excavations, in a difficult site, but which will enrich this area in terms of heritage”.
One of the main elements of this expansion of the Museum will be the ruins of the old matrix. Idalina Nobre, coordinator of the Museum, even admits the possibility of transferring the pieces (stoneworks, vault locks, etc.) of the church destroyed by the 1755 earthquake, which are now displayed in one of the rooms of the current museum structure, there. "If we are going to recover and integrate the ruin, it will make perfect sense to transfer this nucleus there," he said.
But the museum's new wing will also include a temporary exhibition gallery, cafeteria, as well as other support spaces.
"Albufeira doesn't have much built heritage, so we have to preserve and even rediscover some of that heritage", stressed the mayor to the Sul Informação. "We have to know how to show the built heritage, in complementarity with the natural heritage," he added.
Nowadays, «tourists want more than sun and beach, they want a complete experience, and the built heritage, the museum, can provide just that», said José Carlos Rolo.
The mayor's declarations were made at the reopening of the Albufeira Municipal Museum of Archeology, after an investment of 350 thousand euros in physical mobility and intellectual accessibility, making it the most inclusive Museum in the Algarve.
Virtual images of the project – source: Albufeira Municipal Council
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