Museu da Emigração e das Comunidades

Museu da Emigração e das Comunidades


The Museum of Emigration and the Communities inscribes its purposes in the perspective of the knowledge of the Portuguese emigration.

The Museum of Emigration and the Communities inscribes its purposes in the perspective of the knowledge of the Portuguese emigration, including the phenomenon that was patent for Africa, as well as that existing nowadays, without forgetting the importance of the return, focusing on:

* the emigration to Brazil (19th century and first decades of the 20th)
* the emigration to European countries (2nd half of the 20th century).

This museum is seen as a web museum in the communicational sense, which means, as an informative platform developing activities of research and divulging, having as privileged addressees the emigrants, descendants and associations, involving scholars who focus their works in this thematic area, in a descriptive, analytical, interactive logic and in a web, giving more importance to individuals, contexts, memories, having as privileged resource the new technologies.

Museu da Emigração:
Comunidades e Luso-Descendentes
Casa Municipal da Cultura - Fafe
P - 4820-276 Fafe
Source:  Migration Museums