The National Coach Museum presents “Sedan Chair: a private and urban vehicle”, organized by the National Coach Museum with the support of Universidade Lusófona – Department of Museology.
The National Coach Museum, within the scope of fulfilling its functions as an institution, assumes the mission, among others, of studying, exhibiting and disseminating the objects that make up the Museum’s collection, under multiple readings and perspectives of analysis. These readings make it possible to create narratives and enable the creation of new interpretations, not only for regular visitors, but also for the public that, as a rule, does not visit the institution, seeking, in this way, to maintain and retain the public, as well as the study and dissemination of the collections.
The Museum includes in its collection several sedan chairs, whose models allow analysis and starting points for reflection.
Despite its success as a means of transport, versatile and urban, a reflection of the needs, tastes and mentalities of its time, the study of the car seat is still underdeveloped. For this reason, it is justifiable to hold an exhibition that helps to understand what these vehicles were, the construction techniques and materials, the decorative elements that compose them, the ways of use in the past and in the present.
The study of the Museum’s collections cannot end in the closed universe of the institution. The research/study mission should be extended to other areas, namely the academic world, creating for such a partnership between the Museum and Universities.
The exhibition that is now being presented is intended to be the starting point for the creation of a program of temporary exhibitions to enhance the collections and, at the same time, to bring the academic world and the museum environment closer together. In this way, the present exhibition is held together with Universidade Lusófona – Department of Museology.
LOCATION: Temporary Exhibition Room of the National Coach Museum (New Building)
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