Art, environment and science are some of the subjects contemplated in the planning of the Angra do Heroísmo Museum for the first months of 2009.
Already in January, the museum will open an exhibition and an installation that privilege the environmental theme.
Entitled “Azores: from Fire to Forest” (“Açores: do Fogo à Floresta”), that exhibition is composed by a sequence of photographies, by the photographer Pedro Cardoso.
Altogether, it is 25 photographies that escape to what our glance usually finds in the Azorean scenery, whether for being done in more or less hidden places, whether for the resource to the macro revealing the unsuspicious alien outlines of small beings that share our daily life.
In the installation “Water doesn’t fall of the Moon” (“A Água não cai da Lua”), the artist Andrea Inocêncio alerts for the suffering that the irregular distribution of the water brings for thousands of women.
From January to May, in the Sala de Destaques, there will also be opportunity to see a display of the treasures that the vault of the Angra do Heroísmo Museum has.
On the 13th February, the inauguration of the “Thiago Romão da Rosa: A Photographer in the Azores” (“Thiago Romão da Rosa: Um Fotógrafo nos Açores”) exhibition will have place, with photographies of the first half of the century XX, by that photographer from Faial, pertaining to the private collection of Duarte Cota Moniz.
This exhibition is of the responsibility of the Structure of Mission of Image File of the Azores of the Regional Directorate for Culture, as part of the MEDIAT project.
In March, it will be time to appreciate in the Angra museum the evolution of the decoration in the European pottery and to pay tribute to the scientist who was lieutenant-colonel José Agostinho.
Already in May, the Angra do Heroísmo Museum will be going to be associated to the celebrations of the International Astronomy Year, being foreseen exhibitions and activities addressed at the schools and to the population in general.