The first comic book museum in Portugal should be born in Beja until 2025 – Showbiz
“It is not an absolute certainty, but this is our expectation”, to create the museum during the current term, which began on the 18th of this month and will end in October 2025, the president of the Chamber of Beja, Paulo, told Lusa agency Arsenic.
The socialist mayor recalled that, in 2017, when he took office for the first term, he said that “he would only consider moving forward in a second term with the comic book museum”, a project that had been launched in 2016 by the former communist executive.
“This is what continues in our purposes”, he said, stressing: “I cannot commit myself, nor would it be fair or honest on my part, with absolute certainty, but we will do it. [atual executivo municipal liderado pelo PS] whatever is in our power to move the project forward”.
In other words, it carries out the architectural and museological projects, which are being done by technicians from the municipality, regularly and, “if possible, move on to the installation phase of the museum”, he explained.
Paulo Arsénio said that the architectural project, to adapt two municipal buildings to install the equipment, designed by the architect Manuel Faião, and the museological project proposal, under the responsibility of museum mentor Paulo Monteiro, are practically completed.
As soon as lost projects are completed, the municipality will proceed to the final measurement phase, that is, to determine the costs of installing the museum, which includes a work to adapt the buildings and purchase equipment, explained.
“Without wanting to move forward with a timeline”, the mayor said he hoped that a determination phase would be completed “as soon as possible, it could be a few months”, before the municipality can “see what projects are like possibilities to move forward with the “, How is your “wish to do it”.
The mayor said that, “due to” the investment required, the municipality can apply for the creation of the museum for funding or implement it with its own funds.
According to Paulo Arsénio, the municipality has to wait for the new framework of relevant support to be able to apply for the creation of the museum, because it can no longer do so in the current one.
In the context of Portugal 2020, “the City Council of Beja has fortunately exhausted its funds, it means that we were good at reducing those we had at our disposal”, he justified.
If it is not possible to finance the museum with relevant funds and if the necessary investment “does not stop very high”, the municipality “does not exclude the possibility of advancing the process with its own funds”, he said.
“If the museum’s installation cost doesn’t stop very high and we can do several things by direct administration, internally, with lower costs, we will also assume this responsibility”, he admits.