Museum of Aljube Resistance and Freedom
Dedicated to the history and memory of the fight against the dictatorship and the recognition of resistance in favour of freedom and democracy.
It is a musealised site and a historical museum that intends to fill a gap in the Portuguese museological fabric, by projecting the appreciation of the memory of the fight against the dictatorship onto the construction of an enlightened and responsible citizenship, and by taking on the struggle against the exonerating and, often, complicit silencing of the dictatorial regime that governed the country between 1926 and 1974.
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Open daily from 10h00 to 18h00. It closes on Mondays and on January 1st, May 1st and December 25th.
Permanent Exhibition
The Permanent Exhibition of the Museum offers to visitors a general characterisation of the Portuguese dictatorial regime (1926-1974), its means of oppression over the population (through Censorship and the repressive action of the political police and the political courts), the response of the opposition, semi-legal and clandestine, and also aspects of the anti-colonial struggle that induced the military to overthrow the regime through a military coup in 1974. On floor -1, visitors can still see part of the building structures where the Museum is housed and an archaeological exhibit raised from its subsoil.
Temporary Exhibition
THE PORTUGUESE PRISON PHOTO PROJECT
the portuguese prison photo project provides an insight into seven portuguese contemporary prisons. From the largest and oldest dating back to the 1880s to the newest opened in 2004.
The images, captured by two photographers, a portuguese (Luís Barbosa) and a swiss (Peter M. Schulthess), show different approaches and perspectives and are complemented by historical images from the national archives.
Remember
Aljube, 1958
(…) Lemos da Silva (…) rehearsed another tactic: do you know that in the Portuguese Constitution is not forbidden to go to Moscow? … (…) Pedro (…) answered the letter: ‘Well then, if it is not forbidden; I went’. (…) Take the prisoner to the storeroom (…) The chilling Aljube. (…) cell 3 (…) 1m2 of surface (…) in a wicker of 9cm x 17cm (…) They say that from there, Pedro never stopped laughing. (…) No matter how well guarded a prison is (…) it is impossible to hold the thought (…) A clink of keys comes to call him to reality. (…) Get ready to go to the police. ”