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.

ADEUS PÁTRIA E FAMÍLIA addresses the dynamics and tensions between repression and the resistances of sexual and gender diversity during the dictatorship and after the Revolution.

The temporary exhibition that will occupy floor 4 of the Museum, “The Sacred Poetry of Hope” with works by Dília Fraguito Samarth and curated by Manuel L. Dias dos Santos.

The month of July’s Guided Tour to the long term exhibition at the Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom.

Can a democracy assert itself without a critical mass of citizens? What is the role of civil society during a war? What can a writer do?

Luca Argel will be at the Aljube Museum to present a series of musical lectures on the political history of samba.