The Museum’s long-term exhibition presents to the visitors, on the -1 floor an archaeological exhibit with traces found here. On floor 0, the memorial to the political prisoners and the building’s history; on floor 1, the characterization of the Portuguese dictatorial regime (1926-1974), its means of repression and oppression (the Censorship, the police and the political courts). On floor 2, the resistance of the oppositions (semi-legal and clandestine), prison, torture, isolation cells. On floor 3, the anti-colonial struggle and the independence movements of liberation, the overthrow of the dictatorship and the 25th of April 1974.

Violence is in the genesis, the practice and the symbolism of an occupation process. But violence meets resistance, with different expressions and impacts. This exhibition aims to reveal and highlight various processes of resistance to Portuguese colonialism between 1926 and 1974, the period that is the object of this museum.

Curated by Maria José Lobo Antunes and Inês Ponte, “The Guarded War” explores personal collections of men who were once soldiers during the war years.

In partnership with the Women’s Democratic Movement (MDM) we welcomed women from Marinha Grande who were resisting the dictatorship for a conversation about their memories of participating in strikes and workers’ struggles in the glass industry, of repression and imprisonment by PIDE, and of fighting for women’s rights and freedom.

On 25 September, the Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade organises three guided tours aimed at different types of audiences.

Through the voice of other Marias we will dive into the “New Portuguese Letters” within the temporary exhibition WOMEN AND RESISTANCE – New Portuguese Letters and other struggles.