The Government will reorganize the powers of the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC) through the creation of two entities, the Minister of Culture announced today, revealing the formation of the company Museus e Monumentos de Portugal and a public institute for safeguarding heritage.
“Today we approved two very important diplomas in the area of Culture, they correspond to the objective of the Government's program of reorganization of what is the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage [DGPC]. We approved it with a view, on the one hand, to correcting the deep setbacks, but essentially to have a renewed ambition for what is the management of our museums and our national monuments and our heritage”, said the Minister of Culture Pedro Adão e Silva , at the press conference after the Council of Ministers held in Évora.
The minister revealed the creation of two entities: “A company that will be called Museus e Monumentos de Portugal, which will have its headquarters in Lisbon and which will seek to have a business management profile to generate more value around our museums and national monuments, to we can invest in qualification, in national collections, and also a public institute for safeguarding heritage, which will be headquartered in Porto”.
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