The Design and Fashion Museum (MUDE), in Lisbon, closed since 2016 for complete renovation works, should reopen to the public in the second quarter of 2024, director Bárbara Coutinho told the Lusa agency.
Seven years after the start of the complete requalification works on the MUDE building, the screens and scaffolding that covered the block formed by Rua Augusta, Rua da Prata, Rua do Comércio and Rua de São Julião are leaving", said the person responsible in a statement about the status of the works.
Also according to Bárbara Coutinho, "the present project is expected to be completed at the end of this year", and "at this moment, work continues so that the doors [of the museum] on Rua Augusta open to the public in the second quarter of 2024 ", adding that the reopening date "will be communicated soon".
Dedicated to all expressions of design, which are reflected in its collection, MUDE currently has 11 collections and more than 1,000 individual pieces in the areas of product, fashion, graphics, interiors, theater sets and contemporary jewelry.
The collection of the former Teatro da Cornucópia, which ceased activity in 2016, is one of the donations that expanded the museum's collection last year, through its directors, co-founder Luís Miguel Cintra and scenographer, costume designer and 'designer' Cristina Reis . The set amounts to more than 1,400 pieces from very different areas, namely bibliography, accessories and props, graphic design, including posters and models of shows, many of them designed by Cristina Reis.
Another example of incorporations in 2022, in addition to Teatro da Cornucópia, was the graphic design collection of Carlos Rocha (1943-2016), with more than six thousand archival units, which entered MUDE as a long-term deposit.
Opened in 2009, based on the Francisco Capelo Collection, MUDE received, until the closing date of the headquarters building, almost two million visitors, in almost 60 exhibitions and around 170 events related to its collection.
Source: Lusa