Azores: New Museum of Contemporary Art will have one exhibition of Serralves per year

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:00

The future Museum of Contemporary Art in Ponta Delgada will feature an exhibition each year from the Serralves collection in Porto, as part of a new partnership between the local museum and the Serralves Foundation, a big entry step for the Azores in the international network of museums. And, it will allow people in the Azores to explore the contemporary art collection from the Serralves at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ponta Delgada. The museum, whose construction contract is to be launched by the City of Ponta Delgada in the first half of 2011, has Oscar Niemeyer (1988 Pritzker Prize) as project architect and is estimated at three million euros budget (funds of municipalities and communities). The museum will be located in the eastern part of the city, along the Avenida do Mar. There is also going to be a Contemporary Art Center of the Azores, in the Ribeira Grande and will be dedicated to dance and audiovisuals - financed by the regional government.