The National Coach Museum received in the first quarter counted from the opening of the new building, on 23 May over 146 000 visitors. This figure, released Tuesday by the Ministry of Culture (SEC), means “an increase of 82,000 people (+ 128%) compared to the same period last year,” the statement added.
The figures released are now the sum of the visitors of the old Royal Riding School and the new building designed by the Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. If you count only visitors of the latter, increase over the same period last year (May 23 to August 23) is almost 45 thousand people (70%).
The note SEC still makes a comparison between the 146,000 visitors in the last quarter with total visits recorded by the Royal Riding School throughout the year 2014, which amounted to 206,000 – a record number in the last five year history of the National Coach Museum, last year was only surpassed by the Jeronimos Monastery in all the museums under the auspices of the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage (DGPC).
The figures now published by the SEC on the impact of the new building of the National Museum Coach will supplement the advanced information at the end of July by the DGPC, which pointed to an average growth of 10% in the panorama of museums, palaces and other monuments under its administration, but also pointed to the loss of visitors in some institutions, ahead of which was the National Ancient Art Museum.
The new building designed by the Brazilian architect who was Pritzker Prize in 2006, in collaboration with the Portuguese architect Ricardo Bak Gordon, opened to the public on 23 May , after having been closed more than two years after completion of the work. Remains, however, for complete museography of the new exhibition of coaches, the responsibility of Paulo Mendes da Rocha and the Portuguese architect Nuno Sampaio, and which should be available only later in the year.
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