Palmela is a territory that has Music in it. We know it and we feel it. We can hear it coming out of every half-open door, every wide open window, every face passing by. We know about several families that make music become a link between generations...
The bagpipe is an instrument that has its roots in Palmela. Moreover, Palmela is considered by researchers as the southernmost point of the country with this sound tradition. Through the groups of Piriadores dos Círios, it has maintained an uninterrupted...
Having an exhibition about the historical center of Palmela as a motto, we tried to learn about the most significant heritage as seen by the population that inhabits it. We organized meetings held at informal and unlikely places, such as taverns, churches, gardens...
The "Family Album" Project, developed by the Library, Archive and Municipal Museum, aims at enriching and disseminating the collection of old images of the municipality and at collecting data about them starting with the oral sources. In an attempt...
With this project, dating back to 2011, the Archive intends to collect the photographic heritage of the county and to invite the population and the Associative Movement to make their photographs available for scanning, treatment and dissemination...
The Programme for the Recovery of Municipal Interest Files aims at the detection, the inventory, the preservation and the promotion of the organization of the county’s documental sources with an historical interest, that belong to private or public owners...
