Museu do Porto

The Museu do Porto network has programmed around two dozen activities spread over around eight venues.

Among the concerts, workshops, visits and talks, we highlight the following:

RESERVATÓRIO | 18:00

JAZZ AT THE RESERVOIR

With Carlos Bica Quartet

MUSEU ROMÂNTICO | 21:00

PORTO CELLO FESTIVAL

With Bernardo Nabais and Pedro Fernandes

ARQUEOSSÍTIO | 10:30

MÃOS NO BARRO WORKSHOP

With Carla Stockler

Serralves

The Serralves Museum is presenting a series of initiatives aimed at publicising the museum's less visited sites, as well as activities designed to bring the various publics closer to Serralves' heritage.

ARTISTIC WORKSHOPS

18 MAY 2024, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Education Service Room

STORIES IN THE RESERVES

18 MAY 2024, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. (60 min)

Bookings

SCULPTURES AT NIGHT

18 MAY 2024, at 20h00 (90 min)

Serralves Park

Porto Planetarium

On this day, the Porto Planetarium offers several immersive sessions in its dome, as well as three exhibitions. The day ends with a talk led by Miguel Gonçalves.

EXHIBITIONS

10:30 - 19:30

‘Explore the scale model of the Solar System’ +

‘Meteorites: extraterrestrial rocks’ +

‘From Earth to the Edge of the Universe’ +

‘Solar Spectrum’

IMMERSIVE FILMS

11:00,, 11:30, 15:00, 15:30, 16:00, 16:30

‘There are Shapes in Space’ +

‘An Adventure in the Solar System’ +

‘CHEOPS: Hello Universe!’

LECTURE

17:30-18:50

‘Can the sky fall on our heads?’, by Miguel Gonçalves

Fundação Eng. António de Almeida

Eng. António de Almeida Foundation celebrates International Museum Day and European Museum Night. The programme, designed around the concept of home, includes a series of activities in which research and education converge and where everyone has a stage.

The programme includes an Origami Camellia workshop with artist Mami Higuchi, the screening of a documentary film about the house-museum, a concert by the SoulBossa trio and a piano recital by José Veloso Rito.

Throughout the day, funds will be collected to benefit the Portuguese Cancer League.

Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis

Taking this year's theme as a starting point, the Soares dos Reis National Museum will host the meeting ‘Communicating Research at the Museum’, which will seek to highlight recently carried out research resulting from cooperation with higher education institutions or from being part of national programmes.

The meeting will be a moment of public communication of processes and results achieved by students, researchers and interns who have made the MNSR the focus of their scientific practice over the last two academic years.

Igreja da Lapa

The Brotherhood of Lapa is organising a visit led by Eduarda Vieira, researcher and Assistant Professor at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Porto, and Joana Palmeirão, PhD in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property.

The Church of Lapa, located in the city of Porto, is recognised for housing the sacred body of the Holy Martyr Vitória. After her relics were exhumed, along with the blood vessel, from the catacombs of Rome in 1779, they were carefully dressed and adorned. According to the inscription on the cartouche next to the simulacrum, the name ‘Victoria’ does not correspond to her given name (nominis proprii), which would have been engraved on the tombstone. She may therefore have been one of the many corpi santi baptised with the name ‘Victory’, whose meaning possibly evokes triumph, success and achievement. The relics were brought to Portugal by Francisco de Almada e Mendonça, ambassador to the Court of Rome, for private veneration. Later, in 1811, her simulacrum was generously donated by her family to the Brotherhood of Lapa, thus promoting public veneration of the martyred saint.