2LEGACY team studies Charles Lepierre’s Portuguese ceramics
Mission to the Sévres Museum, in France 2LEGACY team studies Charles Lepierre’s Portuguese ceramics IN2PAST Exploratory Project 3rd Edition, 2024-2025 13/3/2025 An interdisciplinary team from the 2LEGACY project, funded by IN2PAST, went to the Manufacture et Musée Nationaux de Sèvres, in the outskirts of Paris, France, in the beginning of February, to study Charles Lepierre’s […]
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Secretary of State for Science visits IN2PAST The whole is greater than the sum of its parts Informal meeting in Évora brings together directors, senior researchers and PhD students 24/2/2025 Would the seven research units (RUs) that make up IN2PAST not work together in the same collaborative way without the associate laboratory (AL)? The question […]
VINCULUM wins European open science awards
View of the town, Ponte de Lima, 2023, watercolour on Arches paper – 22 x 31 cm. © A. Dantas – adantas.art ERC project hosted by IHC / IN2PAST VINCULUM wins European open science awards ‘You can be a historian’: opening research to schools and communities by engaging students in local heritage 20/02/2025 Project VINCULUM […]
Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and its Empire
New book continues Foteini Vlachou’s project Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and its Empire From the 18th to the 20th century 19/02/2025 The book Collections, Exhibitions and Museums in Portugal and its Empire: From the 18th to the 20th century (Routledge, 2025), a project by the late Foteini Vlachou which was continued by researchers […]
When an exhibition reflects the process of knowledge…
‘Investigar para Expor: Artistas na Fábrica’, February 15th, Leiria When an exhibition reflects the process of knowledge… … and invites further development and questioning 19/02/2025 Understanding the historical, social, artistic and political context of the works featured in the ’Artists at the Factory’ exhibition required not only identifying and combining the results of many previous […]
The value of local raw materials in traditional ceramics
2LEGACY at the 5th National Meeting of IN2PAST Researchers The value of local raw materials in traditional ceramics Bringing the legacy of chemist Charles Lepierre to the future 13/2/2025 Recent efforts to preserve the intangible heritage of Portuguese ceramic craftsmanship have often underestimated the value of local raw materials, replacing them with commercial materials. Project […]
Creating an intelligent 3D model of a Romanesque rural church
At the 5th National Meeting of IN2PAST Researchers Creating an intelligent 3D model of a Romanesque rural church An initial stride towards the complete digitalization by Heritage-BIM of the S. João de Calvos chapel 13/2/2025 ‘This project presents a pilot case study focused on H-BIM digitalization of the rural Romanesque-style church of S. João de […]
Research mission to EPIC – The Irish Emigration Museum
IN2PAST team in Dublin Research mission to EPIC – The Irish Emigration Museum Towards a white paper on migration 07/02/2025 IN2PAST researchers José Mapril (CRIA – NOVA FCSH), Victor Pereira (IHC – NOVA FCSH) and Sónia Ferreira (CRIA – NOVA FCSH) were in Dublin, Ireland, at the end of January, for a research and survey […]
IN2PAST 5th National Meeting by RUM
to discuss instead of presenting IN2PAST 5th National Meeting with new format Video report by Rádio Universitária do Minho 28/1/2025 How can we bring museums closer to citizens? What should we do with heritage and what heritage should we leave for future generations? Can the private sector play a more active role in urban regeneration […]
Heritage science meets society in Braga
Public session at the Rectory of UMinho Heritage Science meets Society in Braga … or a letter to my mother 22/1/2025 [currently being updated] The venue at the Rectory of the University of Minho (Sala dos Arcos) seemed small to accommodate so many researchers and representatives from various organisations who answered the call to take […]