Francisco de Lacerda Museum
Location:
Rua José Azevedo da Cunha
9850-038 Calheta
Phone: (351) 295 416 323
Fax: (351) 295 416 555
e-mail: museu.flacerda.info@azores.gov.pt
site: http://museus.azores.gov.pt
Opening hours:
Mondays to Fridays 9.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Closed to the public at weekends and on bank holidays.
Entry:
Normal ticket: 1.00 Euro
Discount tickets: 50% discount for holders of a Cartão Jovem, people aged between 15 and 25, retired people, pensioners, people aged over 65 and teachers of any level of education.
Free entry: International Museum Day (18th of May), children up to 14, holders of Cartão Interjovem, members of APOM/ICOM, researchers, journalists and tourism professionals (on providing proof of their position), teachers and students (as part of programmed study visits) protectors of the arts and sciences and members of Associations of the Friends of the respective museum, employees of the Regional Board of Culture and dependent services.
Curator:
Presidency of the Azores Regional Government
Regional Board of Culture
At the end of the 1970s a group of citizens from Calheta and Ribeira Seca took the initiative of organising na ethnographic exhibition and brought together collections of weaving, furniture and agricultural equipment for this purpose. After the Regional Government acquired a building facing the sea in the town of Calheta, whose construction had been ordered by Father Francisco de Azevedo Machado Neto, a commission was set up to form the Ethnographic House of São Jorge with the aforementioned collections The Ethnographic House was later converted into an island museum and the museum was inaugurated in 1991.
The collections housed in the museum are above all of an ethnographic nature and date from the 19th and 20th centuries, while covering the following themes: ceramics, textiles/weaving, farming, cattle breeding, furniture and photography.
Services:
Educational Service
Activity: Guided visits.
Contact: virginia.ms.reis@azores.gov.pt
Documentation centre
Mediateca – As a documentation centre, Internet Access, use of video and CD_ROM and a bookshop.
Shop
Sale of informative and promotional material.
Available facilities
Available spaces:
Meeting room – capacity 20 people
Space designed for temporary exhibitions – capacity 20 people
Price list: Portaria n.º 69/2004 de 12 de Agosto
Form: Despacho n.º 635/2004 de 17 de Agosto
Crown of the Holy Spirit
Whale Bone. José Soares. 1994.
Counterpane
Hand dyed wool.. Beginning of the 20th Century.
Moulds
Rosa Nazária / José Soares. Sculpted Cedar Word. C.1980.
