The Museu de Lagos Dr. José Formosinho reopens to the public on October 27, City Day, after four years closed for extensive refurbishment work.
According to the Câmara de Lagos, responsible for the works, «the intervention now completed allowed a new programming of contents, the conservation and restoration of the collection and an appreciation of the exhibited collection, now shown to the public in museum environments according to current concepts, but with the utmost respect for the original ideas of the patron and founder of the Museum, Dr. José Formosinho (1888-1960), who promoted the constitution, in 1930, of a Regional Museum with the Lagos City Council».
Thus, in the same building where it was installed almost a century ago, the museum «now reopens with substantial improvements to the property and with a long-term exhibition where an important set of pieces corresponding to the period after 1460 (the year of the Infante's death) is exhibited. Henrique) and which lasted until the end of the Peninsular War, a military conflict in whose operational scenarios the 2nd Infantry Regiment of Lagos stood out, to whose religious brotherhood the Church of Santo António belonged».
This Baroque church, a National Monument, is part of the Museum's route and «has now benefited from new lighting that enhances the gilded woodwork, the canvas paintings, the painted ceiling in perspective and the image of the Holy Patron of the Brotherhood».
Inside the Museum, some notable pieces of its collection now gain the deserved prominence and historical and artistic context, through accessible texts, graphics and multimedia applications.
The exhibition of Special Collections, created by the founder of the Museum and enriched by countless donations from the people of Lagos, complements a chronological route – a Curiosities Office, a section of Naturalist painting from the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries and a section dedicated to the so-called artisanal or homemade industries , with a remarkable set of objects, the result of knowledge usually transmitted within the family, but which were also the target of innovation in formal education between the XNUMXst Republic and the Estado Novo.
The complete refurbishment of the Museu de Lagos was carried out under the CRESC Algarve 2020 Operational Program, in an application with a total investment of 3.421.845.49 euros, benefiting from a 60% funding from the FEDER.
The Câmara de Lagos also announces that, «very soon», work will begin to expand the Museu de Lagos Dr. José Formosinho to the front building, where the former PSP squadron functioned, «to install the collections corresponding to the period there. dating back to 1460, of predominantly archaeological character».
Photos: Elisabete Rodrigues | Sul Informação
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