The Government of the Azores faces the works of enlargement of the Graciosa Museum, recently awarded by nearly a million euros, like an intervention drawn to create a “dichotomy between tradition and modernity”.
 
In articulation with the existent building, the new architectural forms, marked by volumetric, “create a dichotomy between tradition and modernity, in a coherent and harmonious whole”, guarantees the Executive of Carlos César, in answer to a parliamentary request on the undertaking.
 
The project of construction of the new structure of the Graciosa Museum had for base the purpose of “setting the difference through an architectural object with clear artistic quality and visual impact for its contemporary form”, being claimed that “it stands out regarding the existent building and all its involving” and that it constitutes a “mark of the current century for the future”, alleges the Government.
 
As he added, taking as a base the idea of which the “architecture must be understood like a creative cultural act”, the Executive understood that the adopted option is revealed as being the “more appropriate one” for this occupation program to introduce in the zone described as Santa Cruz da Graciosa.
 
Awarded to the Edifer Construções enterprise, as part of an architecture project of Mariana Godinho, the enlargement works of the Graciosa Museum will allow increasing the respective infrastructures of 376 for 549 square meters.
 
The culture of the vine, a traditional activity of Graciosa, will keep on constituting the privileged centre of the project of the institution, which opened in 1983 like ethnographical house.