This workshop will begin with observing drawings that belong to the long-term exhibition of the Soares dos Reis National Museum. Some techniques of drawing, shades and light will be noticed by the participants and some explanation about the materials and techniques of drawing with pencil, charcoal and pen will be learnt.

 

Some short and quick exercises are going to be made at first, and then latter participants are going to be invited to make one observation drawing trying to add shape, contour, and volume.

 

This activity can happen at the Museum garden (or it can be also inside the Museum), after participants choose outside the objects to draw.

 

The unconscious is, as in brut art, the greatest freedom of creation. If we leave conventions aside and take into account that the act of writing has always been with us, we will certainly understand how what we write is always all we know, even if it is imagination. The bridge between writing and, only later, writing as an art form, is individual democracy in making words a simple thing.

Through various answer exercises, questions and playful observations, the fluidity of uncensored thought is transformed into raw writing, with a lot of delicate detail.

 

The workshop is part of the parallel program of the temporary exhibition Portreto de la Animo Art Brut Etc. on view until November 12th at the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis.

Commented visit

The works presented in the exhibition Portreto de la Animo Art Brut Etc. offer us contemporary expressions of portraiture as a means of exploring identity by different authors. This visit to the exhibition will focus on this genre of artistic expression (portrait and self-portrait), exploring the singular, changeable and multifaceted character of the identity of the subjects represented.

Take part in the visit commented by Susana Medina, exhibition production coordinator, and Ana Anjos Mântua, editorial coordinator of the exhibition catalogue.

In September, the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis proposes a Workshop on preventive conservation of ceramic objects, providing participants with the opportunity to develop new skills, in an informal and creative environment. Registration ongoing.

 

Conservation & Restoration
Workshop on preventive conservation of ceramic objects
September 20, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

As part of the Saturday Encounters programme, the Soares dos Reis National Museum proposes a concert by the Duo Spiritus Filum, on September 16th, at 7 pm. The event has free entry, subject to space capacity.

 

Leonor Maia, the harpist, and Francisco Barbosa, the flutist, make up the Duo Spiritus Filum. The two met in Vienna, while participating in musical projects, and have since played in several concert halls in Portugal, Austria and Germany.

 

The Duo Spiritus Filum project consists of a musical journey, based on Classicism, mainly with works originally composed for harp and flute, which demonstrates the progression and evolution of music in different periods in the history of music.

 

The presentation they make at the Soares dos Reis National Museum is part of the RioHarpFestival 2023 program – European version.

The Soares dos Reis National Museum offers visits with varied themes, creating mediation spaces where you can discover unexpected details and surprising facts about the Museum’s history and collections.

Always on Wednesday and Friday, at the right time. Participate! The museum is for everyone and for everyone!

 

Sunlight: light and painting

1 September, 11am

 

Women Artists

6 September, 3pm

 

Sunlight: light and painting

September 8, 11am

 

National Treasures from the MNSR collection

September 13th, 3pm

 

The medieval Christ and other segments of European art

September 15th, 11:00 am

 

The portrait in artistic production: what representations?

September 20, 3pm

 

Fountains and Fontanaries in the MNSR collections

September 22, 11:00 am

 

Where, why, what and how: four questions about the MNSR’s Goldsmithing and Jewelery collections

September 27th, 3pm

 

The main floor of the Carrancas Palace

September 29, 3pm

Robertos Theater | Mandrake

September 2, 3 pm + INFO

 

Cyanotype Workshops

September 9, 10:30 am and 2:30 pm + INFO

 

Guided Tour: Medieval Christ and other segments of European art

September 16, 11:00 am Online registration – click here

 

DUO SPIRITUS FILUM Concert

September 16, 7 pm + INFO

 

Guided Tour: Landscape painting in Naturalism

September 30, 3:00 pm Online registration – click here

The Soares dos Reis National Museum has a challenging proposal that allows the mind to rest – summer mini-courses. From drawing to scientific illustration, from ceramics to jewelry, including conservation and restoration, there are several possibilities to develop new skills.

 

Conservation & Restoration
Workshop on preventive conservation of ceramic objects
September 20, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

 

On Thursdays after hours, anything can happen at the Soares dos Reis National Museum. There are several activities designed for those who want to enjoy the different spaces of the Museum at dusk. Diverse and unexpected themes are explored in unusual spaces.

Commented visit to the exhibition Portreto de la Animo Art Brut Etc.

September 7, 6 pm + INFO

 

Play of the Month – Audience Choice

September 14, 6:30 pm

 

Commented reading: The Douro in the MNSR collections

September 21, 18:00 Online registration – click here

 

Meetings in the garden – The Eco

September 28, 6:00 pm Online registration – click here

The Soares dos Reis National Museum hosts, on September 9th, two photographic printing workshops in Cianotipia. The sessions take place at 10:30 am and 2:30 pm, lasting two hours each.

 

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process discovered in 1842 by scientist and astronomer John Herschel. It was botanist and photographer Anna Atkins who explored the process to print her first book “Photographs of British Algae: cyanotype impressions”, considered the first photography book in history.

 

The proposal for this workshop is to build a kind of collective herbarium printed in cyanotype which, while it is being created, will be hung to dry in the garden, bringing together all the cyanotypes produced during the workshop, thus setting up a temporary exhibition outside the museum. . Os participantes levarão para casa os seus cianotipos.

The Soares dos Reis National Museum hosts, on the 2nd of September, at 3 pm, the Mandrágora Theater and Puppet Company, for the presentation of two Robertos Theater shows, for the whole family.

 

“O Barbeiro Diabólico”
Rosa and Roberto are getting married, but to do so he will have to go to the barber.
Once shaved he refuses to pay and after a fight he kills the barber. The priest celebrates the funeral, but the policeman comes to arrest Roberto, who also offers him the same fate. Behold, the devil appears, who, deceived by Roberto, has the same end as the previous ones. Soon death appears and comes to take him, but more skillful than destiny, Roberto overcomes death itself!!!

 

“O Castelo dos Fantasmas”
Prisoner in the castle tower, Rosa awaits Roberto’s help, but to get there, Roberto will have to overcome the crocodile, face the giant that inhabits the castle and finally face the ghosts that inhabit it! Only by showing yourself capable of going through these trials will you be able to reach your Rose!

For a different morning with the family, the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis proposes activities that move from the long-term exhibition to the outside and to other spaces of the Museum, namely the gardens. An opportunity to participate, experience and create memories.

Workshop A handful of objects
Metals, sands, clays, stones, vegetable substances and many other materials exhibit, after being worked, human creativity and aesthetic nature. In the long-term exhibition we observe objects that enchant us and learn about the stories that convey them. Full of inspiration, we then build an object that will contain the surprise we experienced. When we leave, we carry a mobile in our hands and new ideas in our minds.

For a different morning with the family, the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis proposes activities that move from the long-term exhibition to the outside and to other spaces of the Museum, namely the gardens. An opportunity to participate, experience and create memories.

Workshop A handful of objects
Metals, sands, clays, stones, vegetable substances and many other materials exhibit, after being worked, human creativity and aesthetic nature. In the long-term exhibition we observe objects that enchant us and learn about the stories that convey them. Full of inspiration, we then build an object that will contain the surprise we experienced. When we leave, we carry a mobile in our hands and new ideas in our minds.

Workshop The coats of arms tell stories
Starting from the pieces on display at the Soares dos Reis National Museum, we will look for coats of arms. As a decorative element in various pieces or alone, there are many coats of arms that we will find. What is the origin and meaning of symbols and shapes is what we will discover. At the end of the session, each participant will shape their coat of arms.

The Soares dos Reis National Museum has a set of 10 pieces classified as assets of national interest, also called National Treasures.

 

A classification attributed to objects of undeniable national value for their antiquity, authenticity, creativity, exemplarity, memory, originality, rarity or uniqueness.

 

This Guided Tour is therefore an excellent opportunity to tour the galleries of the Museum’s new Long Term Exhibition, paying particular attention to the most important works.

«A museum for everyone. The look of each one” is the title of the book of stories that will be presented on August 24th, at the Soares dos Reis National Museum, starting at 7 pm, in another session of the Quintas fora d’horas initiative.

 

The book brings together a set of 10 short stories inspired by 10 pieces from the Lamego Museum collection, unpublished narratives written by ten recognized names in Portuguese literature – Andréa Zamorano, Filipa Martins, João Morales, Manuela Gonzaga, Manuel da Silva Ramos, Nuno Camarneiro, Ricardo Fonseca Mota, Rita Taborda Duarte, Rui Zink and Tiago Salazar.

Guided tour of the Aurélia de Souza AS CASAS Exhibition, by author and curator Rui Pinheiro. August 9th at 11am. Registration ongoing.

 

Based on the theme of interiority, presented in the exhibition VIDA E SGREDO Aurélia de Souza 1866-1922, this project reveals the interior spaces inhabited by the artist’s paintings. The locations where the pieces were photographed, in many cases the living rooms of private collectors, are now revealed and give a new context to the artist’s legacy.

 

The exhibition is on display until August 27th.

What are the most iconic portraits, self-portraits and busts in the long-term exhibition? Will you have a look-alike or a portrait with whom you most identify? After a free visit to the Soares dos Reis National Museum (MNSR), take your InstaSelfie and share it with us. The activity is part of World Youth Day and is aimed at young people aged 12 to 29. There are prizes in the Museum store for the images with the most likes that identify the account www.instagram.com/museunacionalsoaresdosreis.

 

Description and operation

To mark International Youth Day, the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis (MNSR) intends to bring together young people in a single activity to take place in person at the long-term exhibition and with publications on the official Instagram account. Divided into 3 age groups – from 12 to 17 years old, from 18 to 23 years old and from 24 to 29 years old –, participants and their families take selfies next to portraits, self-portraits or busts in the exhibition, using props distributed throughout the Museum’s rooms.

At reception, visitors are encouraged to participate in the activity by filling out a registration form and authorization to share images.

From 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, images are taken in the Museum’s galleries and published on visitors’ Instagram accounts using the official account www.instagram.com/museunacionalsoaresdosreis. Only images alluding to the theme of selfies with portraits, self-portraits or busts will be considered, in which the available props are used, which identify the Museum’s account and in which the number of likes is public.

The number of likes for each image will be counted until 5pm, visible in the https://www.instagram.com/museunacionalsoaresdosreis/tagged/ tab.

A partir das 17h30 são entregues prémios ao participante com mais likes por grupo etário.

The MNSR proposes visits with varied themes, creating mediation spaces where you can learn unexpected details and surprising facts about its history and collections. Visits at the right time | August Always on Wednesday and Friday, at the right time. Participate! The museum is for everyone and for everyone!

Women artists
August 2, 11:00 am

 

The portrait in artistic production: what representations?
4 August, 3pm

 

Aurélia de Souza AS CASAS Exhibition
August 9, 11:00 am

 

Fountains and Fontanaries in the MNSR collections
August 11, 11:00 am

 

Landscape painting in Naturalism
August 16, 11:00 am

 

Soares dos Reis: irreverence and genius
August 18, 3pm

 

Where, why, what and how: four questions about the MNSR’s Goldsmithing and Jewelery collections
August 23, 3pm

 

Henrique Pousão: from Porto to the light of the Mediterranean
August 25th, 3pm

 

The main floor of the Carrancas Palace
August 30, 3pm

On Thursdays after hours, anything can happen at MNSR. There are several activities designed for those who want to enjoy the different spaces of the Museum at dusk. Diverse and unexpected themes are explored in unusual spaces.

The Douro in the MNSR collections
Commented reading
3 August, 6pm
Public | youth and adults

 

Between the sun that draws and the shadow of the studiostrong,
Guided tour
August 10th, 6pm
Public | youth and adults

 

National Treasures from the MNSR Collection
Guided visit
August 17th, 6pm
Public | youth and adults

 

Memory and space of the Maria Amélia Velodrome*
Meeting in the garden
August 24th, 6pm
Public | youth and adults
*The performance of this activity depends on weather conditions.

 

A Museum for everyone. Everyone’s look
Book presentation
August 24, 7pm
Public | youth and adults
The Museum of Lamego, with the publisher Ponto de Fuga, presents the book A Museum for everyone. Everyone’s look, which brings together 10 new narratives by 10 Portuguese writers – Andrea Zamorano, Filipa Martins, João Morales, Manuela Gonzaga, Manuel da Silva Ramos, Nuno Camarneiro, Ricardo Fonseca Mota, Rita Taborda Duarte, Rui Zink and Tiago Salazar. The starting point of the stories are pieces from the collection of the Museum of Lamego.

 

The Play of the Month – The Public’s Choicestrong,
Commented session
August 31, 6pm
Public | youth and adults

On Saturday the meeting point is at MNSR. Take advantage of MNSR’s proposals for a different morning or afternoon, alone or with others.

Sunshine: light and painting
Guided visit
5 August, 3pm
Public | youth and adults
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

 

InstaSelfie – World Youth Day
August 12, 10am
Public | 12 to 29 years old
Value | Free
What are the most iconic portraits, self-portraits and busts in the long-term exhibition? Will you have a look-alike or a portrait with whom you most identify? After a free visit to the Soares dos Reis National Museum (MNSR), take your InstaSelfie and share it with us. The activity is part of World Youth Day and is aimed at young people aged 12 to 29. There are prizes in the Museum store for the images with the most likes that identify the account www.instagram.com/museunacionalsoaresdosreis.
+ INFO

 

The portrait in artistic production: what representations?
Guided visit
August 19, 3pm
Public | youth and adults
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

 

Landscape painting in Naturalism
Guided visit
August 26th, 3pm
Public | youth and adults
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

From jewelry to conservation and restoration MNSR has a challenging proposal that allows you to rest your mind – summer mini-courses. From drawing to scientific illustration, from ceramics to jewelry, including conservation and restoration, there are several possibilities to develop new skills.

 

Conservation & Restoration
Workshop on preventive conservation of metal objects
Salome Carvalho
9 agosto, 10h30-12h30
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

 

The sustainable beauty of jewelry
Jorge Coutinho
19th and 26th August, 10:30am-12:30pm / 2:30pm-5pm
Entry | 25 euros

About the Sine Terra video installation (variations in minor mode), by José Carlos Teixeira, the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis brings together Maria de Fátima Lambert and Hugo Monteiro, researchers from the Escola Superior de Educação of the Instituto Politécnico do Porto, for a conversation, and the artist himself to talk about Soares dos Reis and the exile in own home, as well as the themes of exile, refuge and immigration that José Carlos Teixeira has been reflecting on in his work.

The Soares dos Reis National Museum marks Grandparents’ Day with a guided intergenerational visit that aims to bring together grandparents and grandchildren in a moment of creating new memories. The activity takes place on two floors and in different rooms of the permanent exhibition.

Guided tour The World in the Museumstrong,
Can the world fit in a Museum? A journey begins in a place that has many places and many memories: the Museum. But how far will we be able to go and what places will we be able to see? A journey begins that allows us to talk about new places and build new memories.

The Soares dos Reis National Museum marks the Day of D. Pedro IV, in honor of its founder, in an initiative scheduled for 4pm, on the 8th of July, the date of the historic Landing of the liberal troops, at Praia do Pampelido, north of the Porto, on July 8, 1832, during the Liberal Wars, the name by which the Portuguese Civil War (1828-1834) became known.

The evocation of the Landing will, this year, have as its motto the Sword used by D. Pedro during the Siege of Porto (1832 – 1833) – a landmark episode of the civil war between liberals and absolutists, this being the pretext for a conversation with the researcher of Portuguese armory, João Rato.

The initiative will also feature the performance of Rancho Folclórica do Porto, which will present Canções do Liberalismo.

The Soares dos Reis National Museum has in its custody some pieces that made up the uniform of Coronel de Caçadores nº 5, worn by D. Pedro de Alcântara, Duke of Bragança, during the Siege of Porto: dolman, vest, cap, cocked hat, sword, lanyard, boldrié (belt with talim for hanging a sword) spectacle, map holder.

The first room of the new long-term exhibition at the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis presents, in rotation, elements of the uniforms used by D. Pedro during the civil war.

On Thursdays after hours, anything can happen at MNSR. There are several activities designed for those who want to enjoy the different spaces of the Museum at dusk. Diverse and unexpected themes are explored in unusual spaces.

Neighbor’s Day
July 6, 6:30 pm
Public | General
Value | Free

 

Opening of the temporary exhibition PORTRETO DE LA ANIMO Arte bruta e etc,
July 13, 6:00 pm
Public | General
Value | Free

 

The tile panels in the MNSR courtyard*
Meeting in the garden
July 20, 6pm
Public | youth and adults
Value | Free
*The performance of this activity depends on weather conditions.

 

Sine Terra
Conversation around José Carlos Teixeira’s video installation
July 27th, 6pm
Public | youth and adults
Value | Free

The MNSR proposes visits with varied themes, creating mediation spaces where you can learn unexpected details and surprising facts about its history and collections. Visits at the right time | August Always on Wednesday and Friday, at the right time. Participate! The museum is for everyone and for everyone!

What’s new in the Museum’s Decorative Arts?
July 5, 11:00 am

 

National Treasures from the MNSR collection
7 July, 3pm

 

Other forms and functions, glasses in the 18th century
July 12, 11:00 am

 

Route or routes? History of the MNSR through its collections
July 14, 3pm

 

Furniture and other arts in the 17th and 18th centuries
July 19, 11:00 am

 

Women artists
July 21, 3pm

 

Journey to the East in the 16th century
July 26, 11:00 am

 

Landscape painting in Naturalism
July 28, 3pm

On Saturday the meeting point is at MNSR. Take advantage of MNSR’s proposals for a different morning or afternoon, alone or with others.

Landscape painting in Naturalism
Guided visit
July 1, 11:00 am
Public | youth and adults
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

 

D. Pedro IV Day at the Museum
D. Pedro IV Day at the Museum
Public | General
Value | Free

 

Sunlight: light and painting
Guided visit
July 15, 11am
Public | youth and adults
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

 

Piece of the Month – Publication O Homem do Leme
Commented session
July 22, 11am
Public | youth and adults
Value | Free

 

The Bombellis from the Allen Collection
Guided visit
July 29th, 11:00 am
Public | youth and adults
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

From jewelry to conservation and restoration MNSR has a challenging proposal that allows you to rest your mind – summer mini-courses. From drawing to scientific illustration, from ceramics to jewelry, including conservation and restoration, there are several possibilities to develop new skills.

 

Scientific illustration (Module 2)
Colored pencils on paper and watercolor
Jorge Coutinho
15th, 22nd and 29th July, 10:30am-12:30pm / 2:30pm-4:30pm
Entry | 25 euros

 

Conservation & Restoration
Green Conservation and the sustainable future of solvents and methodologies in Conservation
Salome Carvalho
July 21, 10:30am-12:30pm
Value | Entrance ticket + 2 euros

For a different morning with the family, the MNSR proposes activities that move from the long-term exhibition to the outside and to other spaces of the Museum, namely the gardens. An opportunity to participate, experience and create memories.

Workshop What fits in this landscape
There is an immensity of landscapes. Very different animals and plants live in each of them. Let’s explore and transform, into a unique composition, one of those landscapes that the artist Silva Porto painted in the 19th century. Starting from the work Harvest – Harvesters (Lumiar), we will discover what animals and plants could inhabit that landscape when the harvesters returned home at the end of the day after work.