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Horta Museum
Regional museum in Horta's former Jesuit College, with collections covering history, ethnography, traditional crafts, technologies and maritime heritage.
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About this place
The Horta Museum was created in 1977 and was awarded the former Colégio dos Jesuítas, a 16th-century building, attached to the Parish Church of Faial Island, classified as a Regional Monument.
The Horta Museum is classified in the category of Regional Museum, which considering the diversity and quality of its collection is conceived as a museum of historical character, with a vocation of regional scope in the area of procurement policy, conservation and research.
Repository of a heritage of symbolic value, the Horta Museum is formed by a heterogeneous collection of collections, comprising a chronological period from the 16th century to the present: ethnography, objects and devices linked to ancient crafts and traditional agricultural technologies, linen, wool and ceramics; technological objects related to the history of Porto da Horta, such as the stations of the submarine cable that operated between this nineteenth and twentieth-century communications center in the North Atlantic; religious art; visual arts; photographic documents; printed documents and manuscripts; copies of natural history.
In addition to the booty described, there is the permanent exhibition in a fig tree, a unique collection in the world that has been part of it since 1980, and this production is by a single author, Euclides Rosa.