Category Archives: Showcase

Interpretation Center, National Pantheon of Portugal

Three hundred years of troubled construction of the National Pantheon originated the proverb “Obras de Santa Engracia”, meaning any work that will take long to be finished. Its history dates back to the construction of Church of Saint Engratia at the end of the 17th century, Works were completed in…

Interpretation Center, National Pantheon of Portugal

Dina Salvador: The Power of the Sublime, National Pantheon of Portugal

The photography exhibition “The Power of the Sublime”, by Dina Salvador, opened at the high choir of the National Pantheon. «The power of Sublime», a set of photos with themes of sea, cliffs and waves, where nature has created wonderful shapes and colors. It is a sample of the work…

Dina Salvador: The Power of the Sublime, National Pantheon of Portugal

Relics and Reliquaries, Saint Roch Church Museum

Relics and reliquaries at the Church of São Roque in Lisbon is distinguished by an unparalleled collection of relics and reliquaries most of them donated to the society of Jesus in the 16th and the 18th centuries. These precious objects of art and devotion can be visited in loco in…

Relics and Reliquaries, Saint Roch Church Museum

Saint Roch and the Plague, Saint Roch Church Museum

The Museu de São Roque is located in the church and the professed house of São Roque (Saint Roch), former headquarters of the Society of Jesus in Portugal, which, in 1768, became the headquarters of Santa Casa da Misericórdia Lisboa, a institution founded in 1498 to provide social assistance to…

Saint Roch and the Plague, Saint Roch Church Museum

Overcoming Distance, Portuguese Communications Museum

“Overcoming the Distance – Five Centuries of Communications in Portugal”, the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Communications, is a show about the evolution and improvement of techniques that allowed Humanity to communicate more and more quickly and efficiently. Organized chronologically in two routes, one on the history of the…

Overcoming Distance, Portuguese Communications Museum

The underwater cable in a sea of connectivity, Portuguese Communications Museum

The Portuguese Communications Foundation (FPC) and the National Communications Authority (ANACOM), opened the exhibition The submarine cable in a sea of connectivity, on the occasion of the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day celebrations. This exhibition, with the High Sponsorship of His Excellency the President of the Republic, highlights the…

The underwater cable in a sea of connectivity, Portuguese Communications Museum

Mala-Posta, Portuguese Communications Museum

Inaugurated in 2004 , when two hundred years passed after the end of the first period of operation of Mala-Posta (Lisbon to Coimbra, from 1798 to 1804), this exhibition recreates situations on a full scale associated with the transport of mail and people in one of the calls molting seasons,…

Mala-Posta, Portuguese Communications Museum

Porcelain Gallery and De Ciccio Collection, Capodimonte National Museum

The treasures of the Porcelain Gallery in the Royal Apartments, where a selection of Neapolitan and European manufactured porcelain from the Bourbon collections is exhibited. The most famous piece of the section is the artifact in gilded and embossed silver, lapis lazuli, enamel and carved rock crystals. In rooms 35…

Porcelain Gallery and De Ciccio Collection, Capodimonte National Museum

Farnese and Bourbon Armory, Capodimonte National Museum

In rooms 46, 47, 48, 49 and 50 the collections of the Farnesian and Bourbon Armory are exhibited: these are about four thousand pieces whose first set-up dates back to 1958 and of which they still retain their original appearance. Pieces of history and high craftsmanship, where many pieces with…

Farnese and Bourbon Armory, Capodimonte National Museum

The boundaries between art and fashion, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

The boundaries between art and fashion became less clear in the Eighties, when the forms of relationship between the two worlds grew on an International level. Art institutions opened their doors to designers, such as the Metropolitan A new category of exhibition curators and dedicated museums emerged. While art galleries…

The boundaries between art and fashion, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

Fashion is inspired by art, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

Art and fashion have faced each other, often looking at each other, even in the past. If the artists have been fascinated by clothing, as an essential tool to give realism to their representations, the tailor craftsmen have often drawn their inspirations from the world of art and assumed attitudes…

Fashion is inspired by art, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

The Ferragamo case, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

This first section of the exhibition is dedicated to Salvatore Ferragamo and his footwear, already judged in the 1930s as artifacts of artistic value, referring to a concept of art that focused attention on technical mastery as well as conceptual creativity. In his work, Ferragamo took the Renaissance artistic workshop…

The Ferragamo case, Across art and Fashion, Salvatore Ferragamo Museum

Precolombian ceramics Collection, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza

The International Museum of Ceramics has a rich collection, partly on display and partly in storage, of the testimonies of numerous pre-Columbian civilizations. These are mostly ceramics, with a fairly significant presence of other materials (fabrics, metalwork, stone, wood and shell artifacts). The pieces in the collection come from nine…

Precolombian ceramics Collection, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza

Far East Ceramics Collection: China, Japan, South-East Asia, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza

The opening of an exhibition hall devoted to ceramics from the Far East represents for the International Museum of ceramics in Faenza the goal of a long lasting project in collaboration with the National Museum of Eastern Art “Giuseppe Tucci” in Rome. About 400 ceramics will be displayed in the…

Far East Ceramics Collection: China, Japan, South-East Asia, International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza

Not just a museum, Mocenigo Palace-Museum

The Venice Civic Museums Foundation promotes cultural itineraries to discover the heritage, history of the city of Venice and its museums . The “Not just a museum” proposals aim to enhance the museum offer within the framework of thematic itineraries involving different districts by making the permanent collections dialogue with…

Not just a museum, Mocenigo Palace-Museum

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