The exhibition «The health of a community: Loulé in the 1st half of the century. XX», which opened on 14 November last year, in an initiative of the Municipal Museum of Loulé, won an honorable mention in the category of Temporary Exhibitions, at the annual awards ceremony of the APOM – Portuguese Association of Museology, which took place this year. Friday, October 29, at the Museu de Marinha, in Lisbon.
The exhibition was on display at Eng. Duarte Pacheco's Casa Memória do XNUMXth Century, making known «health care in the municipality of Loulé in the first half of the twentieth century, at a time when hygiene habits were practically non-existent, contributing to the proliferation of various diseases'.
The exhibition was “a tribute to doctors Geraldino Brites, Evardo Pidwell and José Bernardo Lopes, thus highlighting the important role played by municipal doctors in favor of public health”, explained the Loulé Museum.
This exhibition also highlighted “the action of the municipality in defending and promoting the health of its citizens”.
«Although the projection and preparation of this exhibition predates the covid-19 pandemic, today it makes much more sense, because, a century later, health is once again the main priority», added the Museum of Loulé.
In the Algarve, also Emanuel Sancho, director of the Costume Museum (São Brás de Alportel), won the Museologist of the Year Award, while the Portimão Museum also won an award: a special mention for a photo exhibition about Covid-19, integrated in its already traditional Photographic Race.
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