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.
Address
Museu da Emigração:
Comunidades e Luso-Descendentes
Casa Municipal da Cultura - Fafe
P - 4820-276 Fafe
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International Seminar Memories and migrations (5-8 July 2007, Fafe)
Memories and migrations was an international seminar organized in Fafe (Portugal) by the Museum of the Emigration and Communities and patronized by the IOM and UNESCO. The discussion focused especially on the new International Network of Migration Museums and on the migration phenomena concerning Portugal and Brazil.
Related documents:
Abstracts
Conclusions (portuguese)
Conclusions (english)
Photo gallery
* 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.
Address
Museu da Emigração:
Comunidades e Luso-Descendentes
Casa Municipal da Cultura - Fafe
P - 4820-276 Fafe
Visit the website
International Seminar Memories and migrations (5-8 July 2007, Fafe)
Memories and migrations was an international seminar organized in Fafe (Portugal) by the Museum of the Emigration and Communities and patronized by the IOM and UNESCO. The discussion focused especially on the new International Network of Migration Museums and on the migration phenomena concerning Portugal and Brazil.
Related documents:
Abstracts
Conclusions (portuguese)
Conclusions (english)
Photo gallery
As the main topic for the presentation at the Annual Meeting of AEMI (29 September-3 October 2010, Bilbao, Spain) “Migration Studies and ICTs” has been proposed for the call of papers. Deadline: May 25, 2010.
The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network’s Second Annual Conference, Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes will take place on Friday 21 May at the British Library Conference Centre in London and will bring together academics, museum professionals, librarians and archivists. Booking deadline: Friday 14th May.
