The Portimão Museum is located in the parish of Portimão, in the homonymous municipality, in Portugal. It is installed in the old Feu canning factory, and opened to the public on 17 May 2008.
The Museum’s estate consists of industrial and ethnographic heritage, namely that of the canning industry, shipbuilding, fishing, stowage, lithography, foundry, tin shop, smokehouse, transport, among others. As for the archaeological testimonies of the Municipality, it aggregates materials from various terrestrial and underwater archaeological stations.
In addition to the room that hosts the reference exhibition “Portimão – Territory and Identity”, the museum also has other public spaces such as two rooms for temporary exhibitions, an auditorium for 171 people, a training / meeting room with 54 m2, the room “Jaime Palhinha” where activities related to the educational service and the Documentation and Historical Archive Center are developed.
From the renovated building of an old fish cannery, on the right bank of the River Arade, rises the Museum of Portimão, which invites you to discover the origins and evolution of its community, its territory and the most striking aspects of its industrial history and maritime. HOURS OF OPERATION *** SEPTEMBER 1st to JULY 31st Tuesday (14:30 – 18:00) Wednesday to Friday (10:00 am to 6:00 pm) Saturday and Sunday (10:00 am – 1:00 pm) (last entry 30 minutes before closing) Closed: Monday, and National Holidays *** AUGUST 1 to 31 *** Tuesday (19:30 – 23:00) Wednesday to Sunday (15:00 – 23:00) Free Admission – Sunday (15h00 – 19h00) (last entry 30 minutes before closing) Closed – Monday, Tuesday (until 7:30 pm) and on National Holidays PRICES General – 3€
The exhibition “Between fishing and weaving lines” will open at 5pm on September 9th, at the Museu de Portimão, which brings together a selection of works of different types created by Conceição Abreu, using various techniques, including drawings, sculptures, installations and photographs. Curated by Sofia Marçal, the exhibition was designed with the purpose of creating, from a contemporary perspective, a dialogue with the Portimão Museum’s ethnographic collection and the history of fishing linked to the city, and can be considered almost a retrospective exhibition, where the lightness of the works on display fits into a poetic narrative expanded over time. The works, where fishing and weaving lines meet, reflect the artist’s commitment to searching for the limits of materials and materials, realizing them in works of art and giving them immortality, by expanding the idea of perpetuity related to the design of fishing nets.