Exhibit Exposições

Matraca CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

This month’s feature highlights a percussion and clapper instrument commonly known as a matraca, originating from the Church…

01.04.2025 - 04.05.2025

Cabinet of Curiosities – Paper Art

This month’s feature highlights a front and back cover made of paper art, composed of geometric and floral…

03.03.2025 - 30.03.2025

Mandolin

The Item of the Month highlights a Neapolitan-style mandolin, made in Lisbon in 1783 by João Vieira. It…

04.02.2025 - 02.03.2025

Curiosity Display – Mould for Casting Sapecas

This month's item highlights a mold for casting sapecas, a piece made up of 6 circles with seal-like…

07.01.2025 - 02.02.2025

Cloak Terceirense

The cloak is a characteristic garment of the women from Terceira Island, with evidence of it also being…

01.01.2025 - 28.04.2025

Lighting Fixtures

The Night of 21 December, the date of the winter solstice, is the longest night of the year.…

21.12.2024 - 05.01.2025

Cabinet of Curiosities – Vial with Mercury

This months highlited piece is a mercury vial, which is housed in the Archaeology Conservation Unit in Museum…

05.11.2024 - 01.12.2024

Oásis by Nuno Sá

The exhibition, by the award-winning Portuguese photographer, is made up of large-format underwater photographs that reveal the splendour,…

08.11.2024 - 09.05.2025

German Breastplate from the Great War

During the Great War, the machine gun proved to be of the utmost importance in containing infantry assaults.…

25.11.2024 - 31.01.2025

Diving into History

Delegação Aduaneira de Angra do Heroísmo, Costums Quay, 19th March to 8th JuneThe Museum of Angra do Heroísmo,…

19.03.2018 - 08.06.2018