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Headgear Museum celebrates 10 years – Correio da Manhã

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Nineteen thousand pieces were donated by 130 citizens

21/06/2015 10:11

Millinery Museum Celebrates 10 Years

Space receives 210,000 visitors.

 By Lusa

The Museum of Headgear, installed in São João da Madeira and one of a kind the Iberian Peninsula, celebrates on Monday 10 years and during that period received over 210 thousand visitors, 87 exhibitions and 19 000 pieces donated by 130 citizens.


Speaking to Lusa, the director Equipment argues that these numbers represent the evolution of “a dream that began 20 years ago,” when, in 1995, Headgear Industrial Company closed its activity and the local authority started the respective estate preservation process, with a view the adaptation of the factory museum headquarters


“What has been achieved in these 10 years -. or in the 20, if you like – was the consolidation of a different museum, which already has its little place in the panorama of national museology, “says Suzana Menezes.

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