Portuguese Music Museum - Casa Verdades de Faria
In 1981, following the acquisition of the collections of Portuguese popular musical instruments and ethnographic objects by ethnomusicologist Michel Giacometti, a museum program was defined for Casa Verdades Faria: the Museum of Portuguese Regional Music was born, and was approved in 1987.
In 1994, the composer Fernando Lopes Graça, who had collaborated closely with Michel Giacometti's research, left his entire estate in his will to Cascais Municipal Council, which was incorporated into the museum in 1995. Due to the wider scope of its collection, the museum came to know its current name - Museum of Portuguese Music.
The Portuguese Music Museum values Portuguese musical heritage and carries out research, conservation, documentation, communication and education activities, presenting a vast cultural program with temporary exhibitions, concert cycles, conferences, educational programs and promoting the annual Lopes-Graça Composition Prize. Since 2011, it has also been responsible for organizing the Machado e Cerveira Composition Prize.
In 2005, the museum underwent an intervention, restoration and refurbishment of its spaces, and reopened with a new museum program and a range of initiatives on the work of Giacometti and Lopes-Graça. In addition to the permanent collection, it regularly presents temporary exhibitions that dialog with its themes.
Closed on Monday | Easter Sunday | May 1st | Christmas Day | New Year's Day
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