Virtual Museum of Lusophony

It is an open space intended as a mechanism which invites the active participation of citizens, making records available, commenting on collections and building collective memory. Its purpose is to facilitate the acknowledgement and critical discussion of the extent to which the "colonial past" influences current intercultural relations, and to foster interaction and cooperation between countries with Portuguese as an official language.

A virtual space open to the production of knowledge, arts and culture. As a virtual platform, the Virtual Museum of Lusophony favours communication as a way of involving and making known a certain heritage through digital platforms which transform several cultural representations of the Lusophone universe into Media Art.

Interaction with the Google Arts and Culture platform aims to expand horizons and universal access to Portuguese-speaking productions, especially in terms of the Portuguese language as a language of knowledge.

The proposal will be developed through:

• the collection of ‘works’ to be registered in the museum (photographs, sound records, audiovisual records, texts, songs, records of architectural and ethnographic heritage…) with the active participation of populations from Portuguese-speaking countries;

• the recording of histories and lifestyles in the closest possible way to all social groups in Portuguese-speaking countries;