The Populate Art Museum r located along the Tagus river, between the Monument to the Discoveries and Belem Tower, in the town of Bethlehem, county and district of Lisbon in Portugal.

From 2014 to 2016 the exhibition halls were closed and the store was only open. On December 14, 2016 was reopened with the inauguration of the exhibition u201cDa Photography to Azulejou201d, about Portugal in the early twentieth century.

Inaugurated in 1948, the Museum of Popular Art was born from the reformulation of the former pavilion of the “Section of Popular Life” created for the 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition, designed by architects Antonio Reis Camelo and João Simões. It was conceived according to the program formulated in 1946 by António Ferro, then director of the National Propaganda Secretariat (SPN) under the name of “Peoples Museum” and organized according to the administrative division of the Portuguese Constitution. 1933. Today it is assumed as a meeting place and dialogue of various disciplinary areas, a documentary museum, a place of memory that is projected in contemporary times.

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