Museu Municipal Santos Rocha
The Museu Municipal Santos Rocha (Eng .: Municipal Museum Santos Rocha) is a museum in the Portuguese coastal town of Figueira da Foz .
history
It was opened on May 6, 1894 on the initiative of the archaeologist António dos Santos Rocha . His collection and that of the archaeological society he founded in 1898 formed the basis of the growing museum archive. The museum had made its first marriage public in regular publications by the museum until around the death of its founder in 1910, who was an important archaeologist who promoted the exchange of knowledge and research nationally and internationally.
After it was founded, the museum was temporarily housed in the Casa do Paço until it moved to the town hall, the Paços do Concelho , in 1899 . The steadily growing collection, especially the increasing holdings of sculptures and paintings from 1945 on , made it necessary to have its own premises. In 1976, for example, the museum moved to the current building, which the Gulbenkian Foundation built in 1975 and was designed by the architect José Isaías Cardoso .
In 1993 the museum was named the best museum of the year by the Portuguese Museological Society ( Associação Portuguesa de Museologia ).
In 2003, two new museums were opened that are affiliated to it as branches of the Museu Municipal Santos Rocha, namely the Maritime Museum ( Núcleo Museológico do Mar ) in Buarcos and the Saltworks Museum ( Núcleo Museológico do Sal , also Ecomuseu ) in Lavos .
Location and structure
The city museum is centrally located at the Parque das Abadias city park , in the immediate vicinity of the Centro de Artes e Espectáculos, built in 2002 . It houses the municipal library ( Biblioteca Municipal Pedro Fernandes Tomás ), the municipal photo archive ( Arquivo Fotografico Municipal ), a congress center with the municipal auditorium ( Auditorio Municipal ) for 226 people and various exhibition rooms.
The permanent exhibition shows archaeological finds from the region, ceramics, furniture and folk art from overseas, especially from the centuries-old Portuguese trade relations with India (focus on furniture), Africa (focus on sculptures) and the Far East (focus on ceramics). A collection of contemporary sculptures, a numismatic collection, religious art and historical weapons are also on display. In addition to these permanent exhibits, the museum organizes temporary exhibitions on archaeological or art-historical topics.
Web links
- The Museu Municipal Santos Rocha on the municipal website (port.)
- The Museu Municipal Santos Rocha on Facebook
- Eleven-minute film with recordings from the past and present of the Museu Municipal Santos Rocha (port. UT) on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isabel Henriques: Figueira da Foz - Rotas do Concelho. Câmara Municipal, Figueira da Foz 2005, ISBN 972-9915-2-7 , p. 28.
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- ↑ www.vaipassear.com ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 6, 2012.
- ↑ www.museu.marinha.pt ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 188 kB), accessed on September 6, 2012.
- ↑ www.igogo.pt , accessed September 6, 2012.
- ↑ L. Hohenberger / J. Strohmaier: Portugal. 2nd Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7701-7658-8 , p. 206.
- ↑ www.figueiradigital.com , accessed on September 6, 2012.
Coordinates: 40 ° 9 '2.2 " N , 8 ° 51' 37.8" W.