A new museum is to be opened in the city of Gaia, which aims to address the issue of climate change in Portugal and around the world, making visitors aware of environmental issues and their consequences for people’s quality of life.
The Environment Museum will therefore offer a bold program, the aim of which will be to show “interactive exhibitions, observe climatic phenomena” that affect “the production of Port wine, the changes resulting from fishing, navigability at sea and on the river, coastal changes and other changes caused by global warming”.
For the mayor, Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues, “this will be a space where memory intersects with the definition of the lines of the future and a space where the soul of the place is respected”. “That place only has a soul because people, stories, organizational models and historical times have passed through it. Basically, we’re trying to represent past generations and project future generations, in a humanistic and adaptive approach,” he added.
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