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Open day: Special International Museum Day programme
Free entry. Participation in the activities requires registration and is subject to capacity.
Pessoas a visitar museu
Pessoas a visitar museu
Photo: Nuno Moreira

On May 18th, we celebrate International Museum Day, which in 2025 is held under the theme "The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities".

 

So, on International Museum Day, this year with the theme ‘The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities’, MAAT proposes an active programme in dialogue with the permanent heritage and temporary exhibitions: a day filled with tours, workshops and yoga for all audiences - children, adults, and individuals with special educational needs. 

 

"Museums have long ceased to be seen as places frozen in time, as guardians of immutable memories. The truth is that the past changes as the present unfolds — and it is in this perpetual movement that we meet the future.
But more than a meeting, it is a construction. A construction we undertake together: museum teams and audiences, in dialogue with the accumulated materials (the collections) or the circulating materials we temporarily host (the exhibitions). João Pinharanda, director of MAAT

                                                                                                                                      

 

Programme

Admission to the museum and all programming is free.

Participation in the activities requires registration on the same day at the MAAT Central ticket office and depends on availability.

 

10.30


11.00 to 12.00

  • Chi Kung class
    With: Margarida Sá Domingues and Marta Mateus 

    MAAT challenges visitors to take part in a Chi Kung class at Rui Moreira's exhibition Transe. The class will be led by Margarida Sá Domingues, coordinator of the Therapeutic Chi Kung Instructors Course at the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and by film director and Chi Kung student Marta Mateus. The activity, which is open to everyone in this context, benefits from the proximity of Rui Moreira's works, allowing for a unique experience of relating to them in an atmosphere that brings together body and thought, time and space.

 

11.00


11.30

 

12.00

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13.30

 

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17.00


18.00

 

Margarida Sá Domingues has a degree in History, specialising in Museum Documentation and Educational Services, and is a Shiatsu Therapist and Therapeutic Chi Kung Instructor. She is President of the Professional Association of Therapeutic Chikung and Taichi - APCKTT, vice-president of the Portuguese Federation of Therapeutic Tai Chi and Chi Kung - FPTCT, and coordinator and teacher of the Therapeutic Chi Kung Instructors Course at the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 
 
 

Marta Mateus (1984), filmmaker and producer, has studied philosophy, drawing and photography, music and theatre. She has directed the films Barbs, Wastelands (2017), premiered at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes, and Fire of Wind (2024), premiered in the International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival, both of which were selected for various film festivals, won important prizes and were shown in museums and galleries. Her video and sound installations have been part of several group exhibitions. In 2018, she was an artist-member of the Casa de Velázquez, Académie de France à Madrid, and created the film production company Clarão Companhia.  

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