On December, 10th teh Alcoutim Castle is closed to the public.

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

“All Around Us” Exhibition

Casa dos Condes, Alcoutim

Monday to Friday, except holidays

9.30 a.m — 1.00 p.m. | 2.p.m. — 5.00 p.m.

From October 5th to 17th, there is a change in the opening hours to the public of Alcoutim Castle:

October 5th and 7th, opening hours to the public are: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

October 8, opening hours to the public are: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm

October 10th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th, opening hours to the public are: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

We thank you for your understanding and invite you to visit the Alcoutim Municipal Museum.

From the 26th to the 30th of September, the municipal museum team will attend the training session “English Language – Attendance and Reception” promoted by AMAL.

This training action is part of the AMAL – Municipalities 2030 project – and “aims to respond to the training needs of workers in municipal organizations in the Algarve region, giving priority to training interventions aimed at promoting administrative modernization and increasing efficiency.” in the provision of public services. The aim is, therefore, to strengthen management skills, reorganization processes, organizational restructuring and innovation, management, operation and use of ICT. Ethics in public service and the integration of new professional staff will be also contemplated.”

You can consult the AMAL project – Municipalities 2030 here.

It should be noted that due to this action, the opening hours of the Municipal Museum to the public will change during this week.

Exhibition “Alcoutim Children’s Summer Camp (1959-1962)”

Churchyard of Martim Longo Mother Church, in Martim Longo

An exhibition based on research and publication by Dr. Celina Moura Arroz, which reconstructs a social event in the history of the community in the municipality of Alcoutim, which was the foundation of the summer camp for school-age children on Monte Gordo beach, between 1959 and 1962. It is the exhibition with which the Alcoutim Municipal Museum participated in the regional project entitled “The Sea”, of the Algarve Museums Network.
With the main objective of integrating a strategy of decentralization of the Municipal Museum’s cultural actions and, consequently, allowing access to culture to a large swath of the population that lives in villages dispersed throughout the territory, this exhibition will travel through the parishes of Martim Longo, Vaqueiros and Giões and in the village of Pereiro and town of Alcoutim, seat of the Union of parishes of Alcoutim and Pereiro.

From September 19th to 30th, the opening hours of the Municipal Museum to the public will change:

River Museum – closed to the public;

Archeology Museum (Alcoutim Castle) – open to the public from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm and from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.

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

From the 19th to the 23rd of September, the municipal museum team will attend the training session “French Language – Attendance and Reception” promoted by AMAL.

This training action is part of the AMAL – Municipalities 2030 project – and “aims to respond to the training needs of workers in municipal organizations in the Algarve region, giving priority to training interventions aimed at promoting administrative modernization and increasing efficiency.” in the provision of public services. The aim is, therefore, to strengthen management skills, reorganization processes, organizational restructuring and innovation, management, operation and use of ICT. Ethics in public service and the integration of new professional staff will be also contemplated.”

You can consult the AMAL project – Municipalities 2030 here.

It should be noted that due to this action, the opening hours of the Municipal Museum to the public will change during this week.

From September 20th to October 4th, the River Museum is closed to the public.

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

From September 12 to 16, the opening hours of the Municipal Museum to the public will change:

River Museum – open to the public from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm;

Archeology Museum (Alcoutim Castle) – open to the public from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm and from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm.

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

From the 12th to the 16th of September, the municipal museum team will attend the training session “Spanish Language – Attendance and Reception” promoted by AMAL.

This training action is part of the AMAL – Municipalities 2030 project – and “aims to respond to the training needs of workers in municipal organizations in the Algarve region, giving priority to training interventions aimed at promoting administrative modernization and increasing efficiency.” in the provision of public services. The aim is, therefore, to strengthen management skills, reorganization processes, organizational restructuring and innovation, management, operation and use of ICT. Ethics in public service and the integration of new professional staff will be also contemplated.”

You can consult the AMAL project – Municipalities 2030 here.

It should be noted that due to this action, the opening hours of the Municipal Museum to the public will change during this week.