Dacosta Gallery
Dacosta Gallery, 29 March to 19 May
Over the course of seven decades, the Museum of Angra do Heroísmo has gathered and shown many stories that have somehow made up its own history. This project attempts to retrace them as part of the programme celebrating the 50th anniversary of its establishment in the São Francisco Building (1969) and the 70th anniversary of its foundation (1949).
This exhibition focuses on the Museum’s main components: the institutional foundation, the incorporation of the collection, the installations and the exhibitions. In reality, without its institutionalisation by decree-law, without a collection that grew every year, without decent facilities and exhibitions, MAH would have been just another attempt to provide the city with a cultural facility that enriched almost all the district capitals.
On another level, the importance of the photographic archive for the museum’s identity allowed for the development of information and knowledge. In fact, the history of photography and photographers in Terceira has crossed paths with the most diverse attempts to create individual and collective memories, and these, in turn, have ended up merging, so that the smallest portrait of a child can contain the entire history of an island.
