Horta Museum
Location:
Palácio do Colégio
Largo Duque D’ Ávila e Bolama
9900-141 Horta
Phone: (351) 292 208 570
Fax: (351) 292 208 577
e-mail: museu.horta.info@azores.gov.pt
site: http://museus.azores.gov.pt
Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Fridays 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays 2.00 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.
Closed to the public on Mondays and bank holidays.
Entry:
Normal ticket: 2.00 Euros
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: Sundays and Municipal holiday, 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 museums, employees of the Regional Board of Culture and dependent services.
Curator:
Presidency of the Azores Regional Government
Regional Board of Culture
The Museum
Horta Museum, established in the former Jesuit College, an 18th century building, was created in 1977. Later on the Horta Museum was included in the category of regional museum.
Replete with a heritage of symbolic value, Horta Museum is formed of a set of heterogeneous collections, including a vast range of different subjects. Covering a chronological period from the 16th century to the present day, the exhibits are distributed across the following collections, generically speaking: ethnography, objects and artefacts related to former offices and traditional farming technology, linen, wool and ceramics; technological objects related to the history of Porto da Horta, such as the telegraph stations which between the 19th and 20th centuries operated on this nerve centre of communications in the North Atlantic; sacred arts; plastic arts; photographic documents; printed documents and manuscripts; examples of natural history, mineralogy and geology. There is also a collection, unique to the world, of models made from the pith of fig trees, which, when considered as a whole, speak volumes about maritime embarkations and the historical evolution of navigation.
Services:
Documentation centre
Diverse themes
Shop
Sale of informative and promotional material.
Horta Museum, established in the former Jesuit College, an 18th century building, was created in 1977. Later on the Horta Museum was included in the category of regional museum.
Replete with a heritage of symbolic value, Horta Museum is formed of a set of heterogeneous collections, including a vast range of different subjects. Covering a chronological period from the 16th century to the present day, the exhibits are distributed across the following collections, generically speaking: ethnography, objects and artefacts related to former offices and traditional farming technology, linen, wool and ceramics; technological objects related to the history of Porto da Horta, such as the telegraph stations which between the 19th and 20th centuries operated on this nerve centre of communications in the North Atlantic; sacred arts; plastic arts; photographic documents; printed documents and manuscripts; examples of natural history, mineralogy and geology. There is also a collection, unique to the world, of models made from the pith of fig trees, which, when considered as a whole, speak volumes about maritime embarkations and the historical evolution of navigation.
Services:
Documentation centre
Diverse themes
Shop
Sale of informative and promotional material.
Santa Maria Caravel
Euclides Rosa (1910-1979). Pith of fig tree.
Society “Love of Patria”
Euclides Rosa (1910-1979). Pith of fig tree.
Self portrait
Manuel Lapa (1914-1974). Oil on card. 1935.
