Museu do Fado

The Museu do Fado is a museum of the Portuguese musical style Fado . It played a leading role in the candidacy of Fados as a World Heritage Site (recognition by UNESCO in 2011).

history

It opened on September 25, 1998 in Alfama , a district of Lisbon that is particularly associated with fado .

The museum is housed in the converted building of a pump house built in 1868 for the local drinking water supply, the former Estação Elevatória do Recinto da Praia . It was created on the initiative of a support group of Fadistas around António Chainho and Carlos do Carmo , among others, and has been part of EGEAC, a municipal company that runs the city's public museums, since it was founded.

construction

It houses a permanent exhibition, rooms with temporary exhibitions, a documentation center, an auditorium, and training rooms in which courses for the Portuguese guitar (port .: guitarra ) and classical guitar (port .: viola ) take place. Reading rooms for research workers and rehearsal rooms are also housed in the museum building.

Exhibits are collections of instruments, sheet music, posters, clothes, magazines and records. Pictures can also be seen, in addition to the often quoted “Fado” picture by José Malhoa , works by Júlio Pomar , Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and others. a.

Multilingual audio guides are available and fixed interactive information points on biographies, discographies and the history of fado.