International Museum Day 2023 – Museums, Sustainability and Wellbeing International Museum Day, celebrated on 18th May, was first commemorated in 1977, organised by ICOM (International Council of Museums) with the aim of raising awareness in civil society to the fact that ‘museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enriching cultures, developing mutual understanding, cooperation… Ler mais International Museum Day 2023 – Museums, Sustainability and Wellbeing
18 April has been established as International Day for Monuments and Sites for the year 2023 under the theme Heritage and Change. The Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC), in collaboration with ICOMOS Portugal (International Council on Monuments and Sites), encourages the dissemination of this theme in order to follow up on the concern expressed by… Ler mais International Day for Monuments and Sites 2023
Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone Galeria de Exposições temporárias do Castelo de Mértola (Mértola Castle temporary Exhibition Gallery) 1 to 19 March 2023 The Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone, coordinated by Santiago Macias, establishes a comparison between what Duarte Darmas saw and what… Ler mais Duarte Darmas Exhibition – From the Reed Pen to the Drone
12th Mértola Islamic Festival – 18 to 21 May, 2023 Once again, the collection of the Cláudio Torres – Mértola Museum serves as inspiration for the image of the Mértola Islamic Festival. It was designed based on an analysis of the Islamic art collection that resulted in the selection of a ceramic bowl decorated with… Ler mais 12th Mértola Islamic Festival
The ‘Cambio de Era – Córdoba y el Mediterráneo Cristiano’ (Change of Era – Cordoba and the Christian Mediterranean) exhibition, organised by Ayuntamiento de Córdoba, opens on 16 December in Cordoba and will be on display at Sala Vimcorsa, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucia C3A and at the Mosque-Cathedral until March 2023. The exhibition… Ler mais ‘Cambio de Era – Córdoba y el Mediterráneo Cristiano’ Exhibition
Decorreu nos dias 18 e 19 em Mértola o Encontro de Outono do ICOM Portugal, com o tema Profissionais de Museus: perfis, formação e Carreiras, que contou com cerca de 70 participantes. Ler mais ICOM Portugal Autumn Meetings – Museum Professionals: Profiles, Training and Careers
Integrado no programa dos Encontro de Outono do ICOM Portugal realizado em Mértola nos dias 18 e 19 de novembro de 2022, foi homenageado o Doutor Cláudio Figueiredo Torres através da alteração da designação do Museu para Museu de Mértola – Cláudio Torres. Ler mais Tribute to Doctor Cláudio Torres
Exhibition ‘Teresa Magalhães, um pouco mais longe’, curated by José Alexandre de S. Marcos Galeria de Exposições do Castelo de Mértola (Mértola Castle Exhibition Gallery) – 23 September to 26 November 2022 About Teresa Magalhães’ painting, José Saramago wrote, ‘it seems to me that each of these paintings was suddenly immobilised, stopped at a precise… Ler mais Exhibition ‘Teresa Magalhães, um pouco mais longe’ – 23 September to 26 November 2022
“After the heat of the summer, the gods favoured us“, says Virgílio Lopes, researcher at Mértola’s Archaeological Camp (CAM), in jest. As part of the ongoing excavation, conservation and enhancement work, an extraordinary mosaic was identified in July, close to the two baptisteries known since 2013, on the slope of the castle. ‘Mértola has the… Ler mais New Mosaic of Mértola
Mértola, 14 and 15 October 2022 Ongoing Research Process(es)! ‘In the context of the current epistemological and political transformations, highlighted by Edgar Morin (De l’URSS à la sainte Russie, 2022), and in an era marked by permanent ungovernability, as Éric Sadin warns (L’Ére de l’individu tyran: la fin d’un monde commum, 2020), the aggregating dimension… Ler mais Collaborative Lab: Urban Dynamics, heritage, arts – VIII Seminar on research, teaching and dissemination
