Following the challenge launched by the Algarve Museums Network, Alcoutim Municipal Museum/Alcoutim City Council is developing a project on the theme “Freedom”, consisting of several actions. This project will be developed in the 2023-2024 biennium in close collaboration with various local institutions and members of the local community, where actions such as music shows, theater, plastic expression workshops, workshops, survey of PCI-Memories, among others, will be integrated. that are directly related to April 25 and the individual and/or collective definition of freedom.

• The pre-launch of the project was the 90th Birthday Celebration of Mr. Carlos Brito, which took place on February 11, 2023, with: Inauguration of the outdoor exhibition “Carlos Brito – life and work”, open until February 8, 2024, at Praça da República, in Alcoutim;
• Pre-presentation of Mr. Carlos Brito, “Estar Presente”, with a moment of declamation of poetry and poems set to music by Mr. Afonso Dias.

The project’s first official action is the Commemoration of April 25, 2023, whose program has already been closed and will be announced shortly on this website and on the official pages of the municipality.

Two actions are also part of this project, the creation of an author video based on the book “Águas do Meu Contar”, by Mr. Carlos Brito, and a cycle of short stories based on the same book and other stories of resilience and freedom, which are part of the “FORTours IB” project, operation code “0779_FORTOURS_IB_5_E, Frontier Fortifications: promotion of cross-border cultural tourism”, approved under the 6th .th call for the INTERREG V Spain Portugal operative program (POCTEP 2014-2020), and will be developed until June 2023.

We highlight the work of surveying memories and stories/histories of the 25th of April, which consists of collecting testimonies from before, during and after 25th of April 1974 and stories of resilience and freedom, in an intergenerational work, to be developed in conjunction with the institutions locations and the local community.

The Museum is currently collaborating with Associação Alcance in actions integrated in the CLDS Project, such as “Evenings in my land”, “Senior Gatherings”, “Sharing knowledge” and “Adopt a grandfather”, which also address the theme of the 25th of April 1974 and the concept of freedom.

All actions included in the project will be disclosed in a timely manner.

From April 17th to May 26th, the Casa dos Condes, in Alcoutim, which houses the Municipal Library and the Temporary Exhibition Room of the Municipal Museum, is closed to the public for maintenance and cleaning works.

We thank you for your understanding and invite you to visit this and other spaces of the Municipal Museum of Alcoutim.

During the Easter period, the opening hours of the Municipal Museum will change:

River Museum – closed to the public from April 6th to 10th, 2023;

Blacksmith’s House – closed to the public from April 6th to 9th, 2023;

Archeology Museum (Castelo de Alcoutim) – closed to the public on April 9th, 2023;

Religious Art Museum – closed to the public from April 6th to 9th, 2023;

Primary School – closed for maintenance.

Thank you for your understanding and we invite you to visit the Feira dos Doces d’Avó, on the 7th and 8th of April, at the pier in the town of Alcoutim.

Happy and Sweet Easter

From the 22nd to the 28th of March, the Municipal Museum is closed to the public due to the preparation and holding of the Smuggling Festival – Arts Traffic in Guadiana, which will take place from the 24th to the 26th of March. Thus, the museums will be closed on:

Museu do Rio – closed to the public from March 22nd to 27th;

Casa do Ferreiro – closed to the public on the 22nd of March and from the 24th to the 28th of March;

Archeology Museum Nucleus – closed to the public from March 24th to 27th;

Núcleo Museológico de Arte Sacra – closed to the public from March 24th to 26th;

We thank you for your understanding and invite you to come and enjoy three days of traditions, unique experiences and fun at the Festival do Contrabando.

Exhibition “A room in the memory of our people”

Casa dos Condes, Alcoutim

As part of the Festival do Contrabando programme, this exhibition aims to remind all of us of what a room was like a few decades ago and the differences between living conditions in the past and today.

Exhibition “Carlos Brito – life and work”

Praça da República, Alcoutim

To commemorate the life and work of Carlos Alfredo de Brito,in his political, social and literary aspects in his political, social and literary aspects, Alcoutim Municipality / Municipal Museum present this photo-biographical exhibition. A life dedicated to the defence of ideals and convictions and the fight for freedom, for a socially just and developed country.

An educated, politically enlightened, militant and coherent man, Carlos Brito is integral to Portugal’s political history of recent decades. But his name is equally associated with the recent history of Alcoutim, the place he considers to be his homeland and to which he has dedicated the past few years. As he himself said, “communities are made stronger when they preserve and value the memory of their most illustrious children, and project their example on the vicissitudes of the present day, using it to illuminate future paths.

On the 11th of February, at 3 pm, the exhibition “Carlos Brito – life and work” will open at Praça da República. This is followed by a pre-presentation of the most recent work by Carlos Brito; “To Be Present”, in the Main Hall.

“Ricardo Corrêa Mendes photography exhibition