Docomomo Portugal is pleased to announce that MUDE (Design Museum), in Lisbon, reopened last week on 25 July, after 8 years of rehabilitation works. As reopening exhibition is featured until 31 October 2024 the exhibition “O Edifício em Exposição / The Building on Exhibition”.

Directed by Bárbara Coutinho, Docomomo Portugal member and co-chair of Docomomo ISC/ID, since its creation in 2009, MUDE closed for extensive rehabilitation works in 2016 by architect Luís Miguel Saraiva. It is located in Lisbon’s historical center Baixa Pombalina, MUDE occupies an entire Pombaline Quarter, where previously were located the headquarters of the National Ultramarine Bank.

The exhibition aims to open the building to the public and allow it to be visited before it receives the rest of the exhibitions, cultural activities, and pieces from the museum’s collection, which will take place at the beginning of October. It is “an opportunity to learn about the architecture, evolution, and transformations that the building has undergone throughout its history and the comprehensive requalification work that has provided this Pombaline Quarter with the requirements for the museum’s full function.” It consists of a tour of 16 installations in which the visitors can discover objects from before the 1755 Earthquake, projects by Portuguese architects such as Tertualiano Marques (1883-1942) and Luís Cristino da Silva (1896-1976), up to the most recent project, from 2011.

More about MUDE and the exhibition on its website here.