The National Theatre Museum is the national museum and archive of the performing arts in Portugal. Through its collections, it aims at increasing the understanding of the history and current practice of the performing arts and to preserve, record, research and make accessible its collections.
The National Theater Museum, designated the National Museum of Theater and Dance since January 2015, was inaugurated in 1985 and occupies the Monteiro-Mor Palace, located in the parish of Lumiar in Lisbon.
From the collection of the museum, there are about 260,000 pieces, costumes and stage props, model sets, costumes, drawings, cartoons, programs, posters, postcards, newspaper scrapbooks, manuscripts, leaflets, Paper theaters from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, as well as an estate with about 25,000 photographs.
The National Theater Museum presents, in addition to its permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions dedicated to artists and / or theater companies, thus paying tribute to the diverse and respected Portuguese stage artists.
In January 2015, it was announced that the National Theater Museum will be renamed the National Museum of Theater and Dance for its "historical role" in both areas, in a note from the Office of the Secretary of State for Culture, Jorge Barreto Xavier .
It is installed in the Monteiro-Mor Palace, an 18th building which was restored and adapted specifically for that purpose. Nowadays, the Museum’s collection, which began in 1979, has already close to 300.000 items. They comprise costumes and props, stage drawings, set and costume designs, posters, programs, records and music scores and about 120.000 photographs. There is also a specialized library with 35.000 volumes.
The mission of this museum is to inform, educate and entertain the public, to be the national centre for research and information on the performing arts in Portugal and to be a dynamic force for the promotion of the performing arts and to reach as wide an audience as possible.
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