Giving voice to the city
The ages of the City is the theme for the start of 2018. It was chosen in connection with the awarding of the Valmor and Municipal Architecture Prize to the Pombaline block, seat of Banco de Portugal - the building that is our home. A unique space, because it incorporates records of the lives of the city, gathered in an architecture that knew how to keep its scars and highlight the stories that happened here.
Lisbon, the most notable city of the European Enlightenment, was not always like this. Can you imagine visiting the Rossio Roman Hippodrome? Crossing the Baixa by boat to reach the Tagus, buying exotic products on Rua Nova dos Mercadores?
Strolling through modern Lisbon, with its well-designed streets between blocks that are “earthquake-proof”?
A series of seminars will show you the occupation of Baixa during periods of celebration and turmoil. In the thematic visits we will invite you to analyze the relationship between cities, currency and exchanges and in the films we reveal different ways of being and living in Lisbon. In April and May we will blow out the candles at the Wall and at the Museum. And it is with you that we want to celebrate, because the Museum lives from its “present”, from the voices that fill the nave and the curiosity that moves those who visit us.
The ages of the City is the theme for the start of 2018. It was chosen in connection with the awarding of the Valmor and Municipal Architecture Prize to the Pombaline block, seat of Banco de Portugal - the building that is our home. A unique space, because it incorporates records of the lives of the city, gathered in an architecture that knew how to keep its scars and highlight the stories that happened here.
Lisbon, the most notable city of the European Enlightenment, was not always like this. Can you imagine visiting the Rossio Roman Hippodrome? Crossing the Baixa by boat to reach the Tagus, buying exotic products on Rua Nova dos Mercadores?
Strolling through modern Lisbon, with its well-designed streets between blocks that are “earthquake-proof”?
A series of seminars will show you the occupation of Baixa during periods of celebration and turmoil. In the thematic visits we will invite you to analyze the relationship between cities, currency and exchanges and in the films we reveal different ways of being and living in Lisbon. In April and May we will blow out the candles at the Wall and at the Museum. And it is with you that we want to celebrate, because the Museum lives from its “present”, from the voices that fill the nave and the curiosity that moves those who visit us.