Museu com Amigos

Name Museu com Amigos
Status Ongoing
Location São Brás de Alportel
Entity Museu do Traje (Costume museum) and Amigos do Museu.

More information:
website Museu
website Amigos do Museu

About the project

The Costume Museum is housed in a 19th-century palace, where exhibitions that use cork and historical clothing as their fundamental resources are presented. Another characteristic of this place is the invitation to the active participation of the community that is practiced by the Friends of the Museum that dynamise various cultural and social activities and events. This group encourages integration, knowledge sharing and teamwork, promoting respect and interaction between the various nationalities that make up the local community.
Seeking to assume the concept of sustainability in its fullness - Environmental, Cultural, Social and Economic - the Museum and the Friends of the Museum have been developing an effort to reduce the impact of its operation on the environment.

New European Bauhaus Framework

This project boosts creativity using culture as a tool for social participation and empowerment of communities for a sustainable, beautiful and inclusive future. At the Costume Museum there are exhibitions, shows, lectures and many more things. We try to make our spaces pleasant and welcoming for visitors and tourists, but above all, we are concerned about making our museum increasingly useful and indispensable to the community where we are located. We are concerned about the problems of our land, the direction taken by the region, the country and the planet. (taken from the Museum's presentation text)