The Alcoutim Municipal Museum wishes all its visitors, collaborators and friends a Merry Christmas and a year 2023 full of projects, achievements and successes.

Happy Holidays

The “Algarve Literary Route” is one of the projects in the Algarve region, approved under the Participatory Budget Portugal (OPP 2018), and developed by the University of Algarve, with the coordination of professors Rita Baleiro and Sílvia Quinteiro, professors at the Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Tourismo (ESGHT) of the UAlg, in close collaboration with the Direção Regional de Cultura do Algarve (DRC Algarve).

According to its coordinators, this route aims to «create a new look at this region: a look mediated by literary texts and with which we will read the space, monuments, history, legends, nature, the Algarve and their ancestral practices.”

«The purpose, above all, is to enhance the Algarve’s heritage by associating physical space with texts, establishing connections between physical space and texts by Algarve authors. Create literary itineraries in the 16 municipalities of the region, make them available in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish, in order to expand, diversify and enrich the offer of cultural experiences in the Algarve, for national and international visitors​ of all ages​.»

According to the Direção Regional de Cultura do Algarve, this route «is intended to offer a different look at the region, since the vast majority of these itineraries suggest locations in the Algarve interior, as well as combating the seasonality of tourism in the region, while promoting the Portuguese Literature».

«These tours also have potential in a school context, in the occupation of the elderly, in the training of local guides and in the promotion of Algarve authors to an international audience, within the scope of Literary Tourism», she adds.

«Each itinerary corresponds to a brochure and a route marked on the ground, so that the visitor can do it independently. The brochures offer a narrative that results from the meeting of literary texts with the biographies of the writers and the territory, and is complemented with information on the history, demography, gastronomy, legends and traditions of each of these places », she says.

Launched by the Direção Regional de Cultura do Algarve on December 17th, in the Salão Nobre of the Câmara Municipal de São Brás de Alportel, The Literary Route of the Algarve will be presented in the future, itinerary by itinerary, in collaboration with the Algarve municipalities.

In the last month of the year, and on these festive dates, the opening hours of the Municipal Museum will change:

Museu do Rio – closed to the public from December 17th, 2022 to January 2nd, 2023;

Casa do Ferreiro – closed to the public from December 7th, 2022 to January 2nd, 2023;

Primary School – closed for maintenance;

Archeology Museum Nucleus (Castelo de Alcoutim) – closed to the public on December 24th, 25th and 31st, 2022 and January 1st, 2023.

We appreciate your understanding and wish you Happy Holidays.

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.