Exhibition “Branquinho da Fonseca: Archive and Memory”
Come relive the key moments in the life of this visionary, who made a decisive contribution to democratizing access to culture in Portugal, as demonstrated by this exhibition based on his memoirs, drawn from documents preserved since 1997 in the Cascais Municipal Historical Archive.
António José Branquinho da Fonseca (1905–1974), a native of Mortágua, earned a law degree and produced, sometimes under the pseudonym António Madeira, a vast body of literary work, with “O Barão” as his masterpiece.
However, his most acclaimed project was the pioneering traveling library of Cascais, which he designed and tested starting in 1953 while serving as Curator of the Museum-Library of the Counts of Castro Guimarães, and which he replicated throughout the country beginning in 1958 on behalf of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, promoting the concepts of free access and home lending, as well as the free nature of the service.
Target audience: General
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Organization: Cascais City Council
