The Artist went out to the streets

FROM 20 APR – 31 DEC 2023
On the eve of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, we share here at the Aljube Museum the photographs taken by Ana Hatherly on April 25th, 1974. Sharing them here in this parlatory of the former political prison is to materialize a duty and a right to celebrate the 25th of April, 1974. The rituals of celebration of the conquests of freedom and democracy are essential for us to understand their value and persist in their uncompromising defense.
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REVOLUTIONS: Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Portugal (1969-1974)

FROM 13 APR – 30 SEP 2023
Revolutions by Uliano Lucas is the story of a journey made of several journeys. Curated by Elisa Alberani, Miguel Cardina and Vincenzo Russo.
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THOSE WHO FELL BY THE WAYSIDE · 1926 — 1974

The Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom seeks to evoke and honor all those who resisted. In this space, the mortal victims of the Military Dictatorship and the Estado Novo between 1926 and 1974 deserve special mention, telling a little of their stories and, whenever possible, showing their faces.
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Long-term Exhibition
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.
All year
The Artist went out to the streets
Na manhã do dia 25 de Abril de 1974, Ana Hatherly contrariou as recomendações para que “os habitantes de Lisboa se conservassem nas suas casas” e, como tantas pessoas, saiu à rua e fotografou o pulsar, a surpresa, a alegria, a celebração da liberdade.
20 of April to 31 of December of 2023
REVOLUTIONS: Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Portugal (1969-1974) – photographs by Uliano Lucas
Revolutions by Uliano Lucas is the story of a journey made of several journeys. Curated by Elisa Alberani, Miguel Cardina and Vincenzo Russo.
13 of April to 30 of September of 2023

Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom

Dedicated to the history and memory of the fight against the dictatorship and the recognition of resistance in favor of freedom and democracy.
It is a museum site and a historical museum that intends to fill a gap in the Portuguese museological fabric, projecting the valorization of the memory of the struggle against the dictatorship in the construction of an enlightened and responsible citizenship and assuming the fight against the excusing silencing, and often accomplice, of the dictatorial regime that ran the country between 1926 and 1974.
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Book presentation “Don’t be fooled!”
A tribute to the generation of fathers and mothers born in the 1930s who, without seeking a place in history, political or any other kind of protagonism, never resigned, risked their lives, went to prison, went into exile, and were persecuted so that we can live today in a better country.
25 of February of 2023 – 15h00
Visit the Aljube!
The month of February’s Guided Tour to the Aljube Museum’s long term exhibition Resistance and Freedom.
25 of February of 2023 – 10h30
Visit Aljube!
The month of July’s Guided Tour to the long term exhibition at the Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom.
30 of July of 2022 – 10h30
The Aljube Museum collects testimonial memories of resistant and former political prisoners who passed through the PIDE prisons, as well as their families and the rest of the community that lived through the dictatorial period, as a way of memorializing the experiences of oppression, struggle and resistance for Freedom and Democracy.
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Guided Tours to the Aljube Museum
The Museum of Aljube promotes monthly Guided Tours to its Long Term Exhibition and Temporary Exhibition, aimed at the whole community, subject to previous registration through the Educational Service of the Museum.
Educational Programs
Maintaining a close and continuous work relationship with schools and other institutions is one of the main objectives of the Educational Service. Therefore, several projects are promoted and welcomed.
CITIZENSHIP, BECAUSE SO!
We live in times when it is necessary to discuss the obvious. Let’s do it! Education for Citizenship and Human Rights is at our origin, and in our identity and in our daily practice. For all these reasons, we decided to launch the invitation to help us think and explain the obvious: education and culture are always the best answer.
Agostinho Neto
#inthisday recalls people and events of resistance to the dictatorship and the fight for freedom.
17 of September of 2023
Amílcar Lopes Cabral
#inthisday recalls people and events of resistance to the dictatorship and the fight for freedom.
12 of September of 2023
Sailors’ Revolt of 1936
#inthisday recalls people and events of resistance to the dictatorship and the fight for freedom.
8 of September of 2023