MISSION | MCCB - O museu de todos

Descrição pormenorizada - Reconstituição de Homo erectus

As mãos de uma pessoa cega tocam o rosto da réplica de um homem primitivo. O rosto é de um Homo erectus. Tem a pele morena, olhos ameaçadores sob umas sobrancelhas salientes, com algumas semelhanças com os antigos primatas. fechar

The MCCB´s mission is to research, preserve, treasure and promote heritage from the region´s culture. To do this, it has a dynamic, educational exhibition which involves the entire community.

GENERAL AIMS

• To become established as an interpretative and interactive exhibition space which encourages critical thinking and understanding of local habits and traditions.
• To meet all the challenges of new trends in museum organisation, anthropology, ethnography, aesthetics and education, as well as political, social and cultural transformations. To constantly interact with the county´s community, to exchange knowledge.
• To plan and create a living centre of cultural reference, inside and outside the county. To contribute to the cultural education and enjoyment of the local population and visitors/tourists.
• To record the county´s heritage, in order to appropriately recover and preserve it.

SPECIFIC AIMS

• To provide visitors with access to the museum and its collections, using multi-modal communication strategies. To encourage people to  fully enjoy cultural heritage.
• To organise and promote temporary exhibitions and other cultural activities on topics of interest to the community. To create partnerships with public and private institutions.
• To carry out a full survey of the natural, social and cultural elements found in the county, in order to create and enhance knowledge.