With the help of a ship, Lisbon will tell the story of … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

A small museum dedicated to the Portuguese Discoveries, which will include a reproduction of about 40 meters long of a ship, will be born in summer 2016 in Ribeira das Naus in Lisbon. Estimated at around six million euros, this should be the first investment supported by the Municipal Fee Tourist.

                     

                         This Friday, the Council of Lisbon, the Navy, the Lisbon Tourism Association (ATL) and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa came together to sign the “formal protocol of interest” the creation of this museum center. At the time, the mayor maintained that this initiative will allow “the installation of something that has long fouls the country and the city.”

“In our country we do not have many stories to tell the world, but we have a unique story to tell, “he explained Fernando Medina, referring to the Portuguese Discoveries. In this sense, he said, will be installed “a reproduction of a ship” in Dry Dock, structure where vessels were repaired in the eighteenth century and was uncovered with the work carried out in the Ribeira das Naus in 2014.

This reproduction, explained the mayor told reporters, will have “engaged a museum space”, which will be partially “buried” and in which enter through a glass structure to the surface. To reach this solution, Fernando Medina said that “reproductions were visited ships in various cities in Europe.”

The mayor was keen to stress that this project, which in your opinion will “give a stronger life to Ribeira das Naus “, will be based” in the most rigorous and current scientific knowledge. ” He explained that the development of content is payable by the Centre d’Story Behind and d’Overseas, a unit of research and development of FCSH, while the “artistic” component is in the hands of the designer Henrique Cayatte.

But the managing director of ATL said that the ship will be “bigger than the true”, it is estimated that there will be around 40 meters long. According to Victor Costa, the first work to do, “later this year”, will be the construction of a “concrete structure” at the base of the dock, which will have to be “more desaterrada”.

Asked whether entry into this museum center, which is expected to open to the public in summer 2016, will be paid, the leader of the ATL ensured so, but said he was not yet defined which value to practice.

In his speech, Fernando Medina explained that what is intended with this investment is not to create “a museum of Discovery, hegemonic”, but rather “an element that contributes to well tell this history. ” The expectation of the socialist mayor is that the step taken now is “the first of a more ambitious project”, passing through the emergence of various “museum poles” on the subject “united in network.”

For its part Navy, the Chief of Staff of the Navy argued that the museum center that will be created will “give new impetus to the dissemination of Portuguese history, in particular the maritime”. Admiral Luis Fragoso Apple also expressed satisfaction with the work already done in the Ribeira das Naus, noting that there has been “a massive support of the people of Lisbon and all those who visit us” into space, which was improved in recent years.