Called MAAT: the “new” museum of Lisbon – TSF Online

The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology will present about 20 exhibitions a year and entries are now cost five euros to March 2017.

the museum, which opened only two exhibition spaces, opened four exhibitions in the renovated Central Tejo, expository part of MAAT.

After a month of works of renewal, the Central Tejo, which holds the permanent exhibition of the industrial heritage of the Electricity Museum, which already had exhibitions of contemporary art, has reopened to the public with the exhibition “Lightopia”, “Edgar Martins – Silóquios and soliloquies on Death , Life and Other Interludes “,” Second Nature. – Art Collection EDP Foundation “and” Artists Film International “

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This is the first phase of the opening of MAAT, involving two exhibition spaces: the Central Tejo, which reopened now and the 05th of October this year, is inaugurated the first exhibition in the hall of the new building designed by AL_A studio led by architect Amanda Levete

the last phase of the project opens in March 2017, with the opening of the remaining new museum complex.

Peter Gadanho, who left the contemporary architecture curator functions in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in new York, is the new director of the new museum of the EDP Foundation in Lisbon.

according to Peter Gadanho, the museum will have a budget of two million euros per year for the exhibition schedule, “similar to Serralves Museum “, and present one to two annual exhibitions of their own art collection of the EDP Foundation, which brings together about a thousand works of Portuguese artists from the 1960s, 40 of them now displayed in the first exhibition,” Second Nature “.

With the planned schedule until 2019, the official said that in 2018 one of the exhibition will be dedicated to Pedro Cabrita Reis, artist whose personal collection was acquired by EDP Foundation.