Branquinho da Fonseca - A life of reading” traveling exhibition
António José Branquinho da Fonseca was born in Laceiras, Mortágua, the son of republican Tomás da Fonseca and Clotilde Madeira Branquinho da Fonseca. Strongly marked by his father's example, Branquinho da Fonseca also had the courage to fight, in times of dictatorship, for an education that reached everyone, through the power of reading in the formation of the individual as a citizen.
The exhibition “A Life of Making People Read” celebrates the life and work of this great intellectual and patron of the Mortágua Municipal Library, highlighting his invaluable contribution to culture and access to knowledge in Portugal. As a traveling exhibition, it has toured the country from north to south, from the coast to the interior, just as Branquinho da Fonseca managed to get the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's well-known Itinerant Libraries rolling on the roads of Portugal, making reading books accessible to thousands of Portuguese.
“A Life of Making People Read” is Branquinho da Fonseca's dream come true, so that everyone can broaden their horizons and stop believing that ‘the world is little more than what you see from the top of the hills’.
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Organization: Mortágua Town Council in partnership with Cascais Town Council