Thought by Socrates, the Coach Museum was inaugurated by … – Journal Hardmusica

After much controversy and a process already started in the José Socrates government, fi yesterday opened the new Coach Museum in Belém.

After being a work conceived during Socrates legislature, the executive was led by Pedro Passos Coelho yesterday inaugurated the beautiful new Coach Museum.

> With a cost of 40 million euros, yesterday was inaugurated counting on the presence of the President, the Presiente of Parliament, the Secretary of State for Culture and much of the Rabbit Steps government.

this first phase, the museum has 78 coaches. In its intervention DSSE Cavaco Silva who believes that the new Coach Museum will help promote “ the image of a Portugal betting on the cutting edge without losing sight of its roots .”

The President praised the Queen Dona Amélia the decision to collect the Royal Riding School premises the court vehicles.

Car those that are now part of a “original museum, unique in Europe and in the world entirely dedicated to coaches and various accessories equestrian . “

” Queen Dona Amelia revealed strategic vision to recognize not only the equity value of the court vehicles, but also their public interest “he said, recalling that the National Coach Museum is known worldwide as” the most complete and most sumptuous collection of its kind , the quantity, the variety and the artistic quality “displayed by many of the preserved specimens.

” The extent and the rarity of the collection, ranging from the seventeenth century until the late nineteenth century, make the museum a real history book, not just about the last dynasty of Portuguese kings, but also on the European monarchies that time, and diplomatic relations between the various States “, he concluded.

But the Secretary of State for Culture said that “ effect that culture has on society, education, economy, tourism, enhancement of the name of Portugal in the world is measurable and measurability that should be recognized and reinforced, “said the secretary of state, adding that culture” goes far beyond what can be measured, culture stands on its own and not as a mere instrument at the service of other areas “.

To
Barreto Xavier, culture must” be part of how you build the policy decision models and contemporary social organization . “

Secretary of State for Culture took the opportunity to recall that between 2011 and 2014 was made an investment of more than “ 100 million euros in the rehabilitation of cultural heritage “.