Brazil reopens museum symbolizing Portuguese independence
ANDthe possibility of reopening will be foreseen in an event planned for the future. On September 7th, the date that marks the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s Independence, it will host local people who worked there and their families, in addition to a group of schools of around 200 students from public schools. Finally, on the 8th of September, the museum will be open to the general public by appointment on the internet.
In an interview with Lusa, the Secretary of Culture of the state of São Paulo, Sérgio Sá Leitão, gave a brief overview of the history of the museum, conceived as a monument to the independence of Brazil from Portugal in 1822, but which was not completed until 1895. .
“At that time, it was something in the world to make a monument, to idealize a building that symbolized independence, the historical fact. The chosen area, then, has to do with the proximity to the Ipiranga stream, which in fact is an area for which D. Pedro passed and which ended up being historically consecrated [como lugar do grito de independência]”relationship of the secretary.
“It took a long time for the building to be made viable and built and it is interesting to say that it was probably the first ‘crowdfunding’ project in Brazil because there was a great movement, the press had a participation in the sense of mobilizing the citizens, and more than a thousand citizens’ movement [compraram cotas] to gather the resources for the construction of the museum”, he added.
The construction of the monument does not work as the Museu do Ipiranga, also known as Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 10 years later, monument and completed in 895, four years of republic Brazil will become, in 1889 .
Asked about the meaning of this as Brazil’s relations with Portugal, S2022 designated the space in one of the few independence celebrations in the world in which the country would become independent and which would become independent and which would be reserved for those who are among those.
“We have a common heritage which is our language and we also have another common heritage which is a good part of history. It was a very close link between Brazil and Portugal”, he highlighted.
Sátão Leitão outlines that the restoration of the Ipiranga Museum was officially carried out on September 7th and many of 2 government companies and Portuguese partners for the realization of public works, such as the after EDP the opportunity to review the history and the items that count important part of Brazil.
“It will be for the public that already knows a totally new comfort (…) In addition, what was very real of experience, much remains and dedicated to the euro and also made to the detailed circulation of the public”, stressed the Secretary of Culture .
The size of an extension area of the new museum, including the extension of an extension area of the new museum, including the extension of an extension area of the new museum, including the extension of its cultural extension.
Sá Leitão outlines that reached the public museum, a new auditorium to the public space, events, shops, spaces for educational projects and an educational area.
“We have as an exclusive part of the project the restorer of the French Tuileries garden, in Paris, and a fountain seen”, explains the Secretary of Culture of São Paulo.
The museum’s collection was also largely restorative, including the famous painting seven meters wide and four meters long by the painter Pedro Américo called “Independência ou morte”, which symbolically recreates the moment when D. Pedro proclaims the independence of the Brazil, other paintings, sculptures and objects that make up the collection of more than 450,000 items.
As of the reopening presented, there must be a full museum exhibition and a special exhibition on the bicentennial of November that must be in November.
The cost of the renovation associated with the Ipiranga Museum was estimated at 235 million euros by the government of São Paulo, which informed the total amount was of the Ipiranga Museum for great value.
The administrators’ expectation is that the site receives between 900 million and one million visitors annually.
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