About 10 thousand visitors and 160 guided tours in the first year of activity
MuMMa - Matosinhos Memory Museum, the most recent museum space under the tutelage of the Municipality of Matosinhos, is open to the public since August 26th 2021 and is therefore about to celebrate its 1st anniversary.
Installed in Palacete Visconde de Trevões, a building from the beginning of the 20th century, which is part of the collective memory of generations of "matosinhenses", the museum's mission is to value the historical and patrimonial memory of the territory of Matosinhos, crossing it with the individual memories of its inhabitants.
To date, the museum has received about 10 thousand visitors, with a significant slice of people and groups from the municipality of Matosinhos, but also from other parts of the country and the world, with particular emphasis on the Brazilian community.
Also noteworthy are the more than 160 guided tours for groups that took place during this period, which attest to a great demand from the public to learn about the building and its memories, as well as the historical and multimedia content present in this museological space.
Throughout these months, the MuMMa, in collaboration with the Casa do Bosque - education service, has developed several initiatives, such as guided and dramatized visits, educational activities and workshops, aimed at school, special needs, senior citizens, and also families.
Very recently, the Matosinhos Memory Museum was awarded by APOM - Portuguese Association of Museology with the distinction of best museum in Portugal in the category of "Multimedia Application and Management", recognizing the innovation and quality presented in this area.
MuMMa was conceived with the goal of democratizing access to culture by promoting access to knowledge of the origins, history and development of the territory in a simpler, more intuitive, innovative and interactive way. It was and is a project designed and programmed to explore the potential of contemporary technological tools, resorting to the fundamental use of multimedia in the process of museological communication and museographic discourse, thus allowing visitors to contextualize the themes, narratives and objects on display.
In its visits, MuMMa provides the public with a wide diversity of multimedia resources for exploring content through tablets, smartphones, 360° VR glasses, touch monitors with 360° images, videomapping projections, monitors, and terminals for consulting content, never neglecting the relevance of the exhibited materials. The result of this symbiosis is a museum capable of capturing the attention of all generations, from the youngest to the oldest.
To celebrate the 1st anniversary, the City Hall thought of a special program for August 26 and 27, which will be announced in due course, including thematic visits, educational service activities, entertainment, an evening show and the inauguration of the new temporary exhibition that will focus on the city's memories.
It is possible to book guided tours to MuMMa, by appointment, through the email address mumma@cm-matosinhos.pt or telephone contact 22 9396967.
Schedule:
Tuesday to Friday: from 10am-1pm and 3pm-6pm.
Saturday, Sunday and holidays (summer schedule until the end of September) from 10am-1pm and 3pm-6pm;
October through March (winter hours), Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 3pm to 6pm.
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