The Museu da Cidade opens the Extensão do Romantismo, following the 2021 edition of the Porto Book Fair. With extended hours and free access on the first weekends, the space hosts the exhibition “Quando a Terra Voltar a Brilhar Verde para Ti”, based on the famous Herbarium by Júlio Dinis, the author mentioned in this year’s edition of the literary festival.
The Extensão do Romantismo (“Extension of Romanticism”) thus becomes the latest station to join the list of spaces that are part of the Museu da Cidade do Porto. Installed at Quinta da Macieirinha, in the former Romantic Museum, the new museological space is a place around the idea of romanticism and reflection on its impact and influence on the city of Porto, with a renovated interior. She stripped off the trappings of every nineteenth-century bourgeois, now opening herself to a new time, in tune with contemporaneity.
The opening to the public coincides with the new edition of the Porto Book Fair, which takes place on the 28th of August. In the space you can visit “Quando a Terra Voltar a Brilhar Verde para Ti” (“When the Earth Shines Green for You Again”), an exhibition that “steals” the title of a verse by the German poet Hölderlin, also used by the filmmakers Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for their film about the death of the Greek philosopher Empedocles.
Here you can enjoy the famous Herbarium of Júlio Dinis in dialogue with drawings and sculptures by artists such as Rui Chafes, Ilda David, Teixeira de Pascoaes, Manuel Rosa and Lourdes Castro. There are also mural paintings by José Almeida Pereira, based on works by artists linked to the romantic imagination, and original sound compositions by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha and Pedro Monteiro.
The Extensão do Romantismo can be visited from Tuesday to Friday, from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays, from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm, with free entry during the 2021 Book Fair. The exhibition can be seen until 27 February 2022.
