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

CCDR Algarve headquarters, Praça da Liberdade 2, in Faro

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 founding of a bathing colony 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”, by the Algarve Museum Network.

With the main objective of integrating a strategy of decentralization of the Municipal Museum’s cultural actions, this traveling exhibition will be on display at the CCDR Algarve Headquarters, Praça da Liberdade 2, in Faro, from the 3rd to the 27th of November and its official opening will be at 4.00 p.m., on November 3th.