As part of the ‘Remember Serrão Martins’ initiative, which takes place between 16 and 29 March, this year in a format suited to the pandemic situation we are experiencing, on 26 March, at 03:00 pm, we will hold the Webinar ‘Mértola Museum: contribution to literacy and cultural mediation.’
Ler mais Webinar – ‘Mértola Museum: contribution to literacy and cultural mediation’
The 25th edition of the Portuguese Museology Association (APOM) Awards Ceremony was held on 10 December 2020, in an online edition. Ler mais Cláudio Torres receives 2020 APOM Award
Considering the provisions of the Decree of the President of the Republic No. 6-B/2021 of 13 January… Ler mais Temporary closure of the Mértola Museum Units
The temporary exhibition ‘Warriors and Martyrs – Christianity and Islam in the formation of Portugal’, curated by Santiago Macias and Joaquim Oliveira Caetano, opened on 19 November at the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon. Ler mais Exhibition: ‘Warriors and Martyrs – Christianity and Islam in the formation of Portugal’
We have been facing times of uncertainty and feelings of impotence in the face of an enemy that we can’t see, don’t know and don’t know how to tackle or fight.
Ler mais Mértola Museum units with Cultural Heritage Clean&Safe Seal
“For almost eight hundred years, the Iberian Peninsula was home to the Muslim civilisation known as al-Andalus. We owe it important contributions to our cultural heritage, understood in its broadest sense (monumental, artistic, linguistic, scientific). Al-Andalus became the hub of creation and liaison between East and West, as well as an important transmitter of knowledge from the ancient world to the Middle Ages.
Ler mais Temporary exhibition – “’Metal Arts in al-Andalus’” – National Archaeological Museum (Madrid)
This exhibition focuses on the questioning of processes of identity construction departing from the connections between heritage and religion in contemporary Portuguese society. Ler mais ‘Enchanted Places, Heritage Spaces’
The 11th edition of the Islamic Festival will take place in May 2021 and will be yet another moment of exaltation of the Islamic roots and influences of Mértola. The philosophy behind this Festival is based on historical-archaeological research and the graphic image of each edition is inspired by the collections of the Mértola Museum. Ler mais Mértola Islamic Festival
The Vestry Board of the Parish Church of Mértola has handed over to the Mértola Museum a series of items that had been kept by the Diocese of Beja for a number of years. Ler mais Mértola Parish donates sacred art items
There is an immense sea of vibrant colour in Guilherme Parente’s paintings. Blue prevails, more intense in a stormy sky or more translucent in the peaceful waters of an island. Ler mais Temporary exhibition – “A porta do mar” – Guilherme Parente
