The Cultural Heritage Directorate General (DGPC) revealed on Friday the number of visitors who made the museums, palaces and other monuments that are assigned to you in the first half of this year. The overall picture, with more than 1.8 million entries, points to a growth of 10% over the same period 2014.
Among the nearly 25 cultural facilities under the umbrella of DGPC the fastest growing in visitors was the National Museum of Ethnology (42.6%), is getting us nine thousand, a number after all greatly reduced when compared to the Convent of Christ in Tomar (up 25.9%), with over a hundred thousand, or with the new National Coach Museum (21.5%), which was opened in May and is to benefit from a climate of Initial curiosity and has already attracted more than 120,000 people in the first six months of the year.
It is now possible to reflect on the impact of the new Coach Museum in the public flow because, unexpectedly, the competent authority shall not disclose the number of tickets sold since May for building designed by Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. But Maria Resende, Heritage communications adviser, told Publico that “the increase of 21.5% is due almost to the opening of the new building” and promised to provide discriminated data – the old museum building is still running – next week.
With a much more significant growth than Coches are the National Museum Machado de Castro, in Coimbra, and the Music in Lisbon. The first, which reopened in 2012 after an ambitious redevelopment project that has earned him an international award, has seen its audience up 39.4% to a figure in excess of 39,000. The second, with almost eight thousand visitors in the first six months of the year grew 36.2%.
At the opposite pole, the loss of museums in relation to entries, the list is headed by the National Museum of Ancient Art (NMAA), with 80,591 (-43.7%), followed by the Popular Art Museum (7,708; -12.1%) and the National Theatre Museum (22,468; -10.3%).
António Filipe Pimentel, director of the NMAA, says this break is natural because the figures for the first half of 2014 correspond to an “extraordinary spike” that his team knew to be impossible to maintain. “The exhibition of Nordic landscape from the Prado Museum and the Goa jewelry – this with 81,562 entries – were highly visited and knew that this degree of attraction would not be easy to replicate,” recognizes the PUBLIC. “What matters here remember is that the museum has been consolidating its growth, increasing its profile among domestic and foreign audiences. Of course, temporary exhibitions such as the Prado create dynamic optimal, but the museum exists beyond them. “
The Nordic landscape, patent between December 3, 2013 and April 6, 2014, made 80 000 visitors, while the shows that came to take its place, almost of the same length (from 29 November 2014 to 12 April 2015) lies, the editor of the collection and Italian Franco Maria Ricci bibliophile, did not reach 17 thousand, a number that the exhibition that the museum this time dedicated to the Portuguese painter Josefa de Obidos should have already exceeded (there is no updated figures, but in the first month – opened in mid-May – was seen by ten thousand people, according to the NMAA) .
“The exhibition of Franco Maria Ricci – wonderful and put the museum in the international exhibition calendar – was far from being a public success because communication did not go well,” further explains the director, underlining the fact that, for lack of budget for programming, the museum and his team are always “hostages” of external partners, this independent production case for disclosure. “In the case of Ricci that weighed negatively. The Saboias. [Exhibition The Saboias: Kings and Patrons ] also did not go as well as the landscape “
Sintra grows 19%
Detailed the overall number of visitors – such the 1.8 million – the conclusion is obvious: the 10% increase is due mainly to the monuments of the DGPC, which grew 15.7%, with the Jeronimos Monastery and the Belém Tower to be, as usual, the most popular: the first has surpassed the barrier of 440,000 entries, an increase of 19.8% compared to 2014 and the second rose 17.7% to more than 285,000. Growth in museums is, for now (these figures do not yet have the tourists of the summer months), residual:. 0.3%
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