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.