The Monument to D. Pedro IV
16 JUL 2020 TO 10 JAN 2021
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
PALÁCIO PIMENTA

In 2020, celebrate the bicentenary of the Liberal Revolution of 1820, an event that is the origin of the Constitutional Monarchy, the last phase of this regime in Portugal. It is also celebrated the 150th anniversary of the construction of the Monument to D. Pedro IV, built in the old Praça do Rossio - renamed Praça D. Pedro IV - and inaugurated on April 29, 1870.

The Lisbon Museum is part of the program Relembrar a Revolução de 1820 - Liberdade e Cidadania (Remember the Revolution of 1820 - Freedom and Citizenship), led by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, which marks the year 2020 with a wide range of initiatives. In a logic of complementarity to this program, the Lisbon Museum - Palácio Pimenta revised the Monument to D. Pedro IV, a public sculpture that does not prevent it from being materialized long after the events of 1820, is closely linked to this civic memory of the founding king regime the new one.

On the upper floor of the Lisbon Museum - Palácio Pimenta, the exhibition revisits a history of a monument that took more than 35 years to be erected. In addition to unpublished pieces from the Lisbon Museum collection - the case of witnesses who were used as a basis for statistics when they were placed on a pedestal and discovered in 2001 -, it shows a list of works from other institutions, such as the National Coach Museum , an Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and the Historical Archive of the Ministry of Public Works, now under the tutelage of the General Secretariat of Economics.

July 16, 2020 to January 10, 2021
Tuesday to Sunday, from 11 am to 5 pm