Autor(es): Aguiar, Maria ; Ferreira, Inês ; Teixeira, Mariana ; Barata, Carolina ; Cabral, Ana
Data: 2025
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/55546
Origem: Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Within a wider collections management programme conducted by the Divisão Municipal de Museus (DMM) from Oporto City Hall, a collaboration has been started with the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) for reorganisation of the municipal storage facilities and to set up the process of transfering collections to permanent housing in a refurbished building. The main goals of the project are to prepare the collections to be transfered, organise two temporary storages, establish procedures for moving the collections between temporary and permanent spaces, organise the final storage space and support the setup of guidelines for preventive conservation. In parallel, several training actions in the field of preventive conservation have been organised, to provide updated knowledge to the entire team of the DMM and to standardise the procedures to be implemented. Interconnections created during the project enabled us to capitalise personal skills and empower the DMM team with competences to lead autonomous work. The three-year project started in January of 2020, only 2 months before the pandemic outbreak in Portugal, and required permanent adjustments to adapt to this unexpected context. The work was done in close articulation with the conservation team of the Museum of the City and also with the register and inventory staff.
