Another excavation campaign has ended in the village of Mesquita in the área of Ermida de N.Sra das Neves, as part of the Projet Archaeological Intervention in Cerca de Alcarias na Aldeia de Mesquita, which has the scientific coordination of Maria de Fátima Palma (Campo Arqueológico de Mértola/University of Granada) e Bilal Sarr (University of Granada). Ler mais Archaeological intervention in Mesquita (Espírito Santo/Mértola)
ICOM Autumn Meetings 2022, 18 and 19th november 2022, in Mértola. Organized by ICOM Portugal and Câmara Municipal de Mértola/Museu de Mértola. More informations soon.
From the 4 th of July to the 21 st of august we received in the Museu de Mértola, the internship of Floriane Paquay, student in the Master in Museology of the University of Liége (Belgium). Ler mais Memories of an internship in Mértola
El diálogo y la experimentación entre artistas y prácticas es el motor del proyecto Constelaciones de Futurama, sesiones que abordan temas como la oralidad, la fisicalidad y la visualidad, en relación con el Alentejo. Ler mais Constelación de Futurama: Joana Vasconcelos en conversación con las tejedoras Helena Rosa y Fátima Mestre
During the month of July 2022, another campaign of archaeological excavations takes place in the Encosta do Castelo de Mértola, which has the presence of local volunteers and university students, from origins as diverse as Portugal, Ethiopia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, India and Sri Lanka. Ler mais Volunteering campaign on the slopes of the Castle of Mértola
Researcher Giusy Pappalardo, from the University of Catania (Italy), was in Portugal to carry out a Sociomuseological Residency at the Museology Department of the Universidade Lusófona. Between the 11th and 19th of July, she was in Mértola where she visited the centers of the Mértola Museum and contacted various stakeholders in the Mértola Vila Museum… Ler mais Between Mértola and the Alentejo communities to learn more about the social function of museums
The first Textile Residence with the Cooperativa de Tecelagem de Mértola took place in 2022 as part of the Creative Wear + Project, co-financed by INTERREG MED, having as partners the Passa ao Futuro Association, the Arteria Lab of the University of Évora and the Museo del Tessuto di Plate (Italy). Ler mais Textile Residence with Mértola Weaving Workshop – Museo del Tessuto di Prato
The heritage of Mértola, particularly of the different museum units, was thus the starting point for the exercises of the 9th grade 2021/2022 school year in the subject of Visual Education, which involved design and fashion as artistic areas. Ler mais Mértola Exhibition is in Fashion
One of the leading names in Moroccan contemporary painting, Moulay Youssef Elkahfaï was born in Marrakesh, where he lives and works. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Tetouan and currently organises and runs an Engraving and Silkscreen workshop in Marrakesh at the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels. Ler mais Exhibition of paintings by Moulay Youssef Elkahfaï – The Return. Le Retour
The 2nd year students pursuing the Fashion Design Degree of the University of Lisbon Faculty of Architecture were challenged to explore textile technologies to obtain designs on the textile surface. Within the curricular module of Fashion Materials II, they studied ceramic pieces from the catalogue of the Mértola Archaeological Site. Ler mais Drawn Surfaces Exhibition: Mértola Islamic Ceramics and Textile Design
