The carriage where King Carlos I was assassinated in 1908 was the first coach to enter the new building of the Museum in Lisbon. The symbolic moment came on Monday morning.
The Real Old hall Riding Arena of the Palace of Belém, the Landau Regicide was packed carefully padded with paper and plastic wrap for nothing you could touch or make a dent. The trip was short. After well accommodated, was pushed by hand by four men, came to the museum shop, saw the sunlight briefly and entered a truck that led directly to the other side of the street where the new Museum building is located Coach.
The “big party”, however, as you call it Nuno Vassallo e Silva, director general of the DGPC (General Directorate of Cultural Heritage), will be May 23 , when the new museum space will finally be opened and of celebration of 110th anniversary of the opening of the old museum.
The work of the Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha was closed more than two years after being completed by him miss the museum signage and unfinished be the bridge that connects the Museum of Bethlehem the Tagus border.
But now, by order of Jorge Barreto Xavier, Secretary of State for Culture, the new Coach Museum will open the doors even without those details are finalized. The walkway will take more “time” to be completed, says Nuno Vassallo e Silva.
Post-Landau, the last car enter the collection of royal coaches, precisely in 1984, had honor of inaugurating the new space, but will be very little time alone. In stages over about a month, seventy coaches will keep him company.
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