Tavira’s Municipal Museum is inaugurating an exhibition on the city’s ceramic heritage on August 30.
The exhibition “From Clay to the Potter’s Wheel: The Ceramics of Rua das Olarias” opens on August 30, at 17h00, in Tavira’s Municipal Museum’s Islamic Centre (on Praça da República).
The exhibition will be on display until April 30 and can be visited in the temporary exhibition room from Tuesday to Saturday, from 10h00 to 13h00 and from 14h00 to 18h00 (summer time until September 14).
“The exhibition results from an exceptional archaeological discovery in two ceramic workshops on Rua das Olarias (numbers 6 and 7), which led to a process of analysis, study, conservation and interpretation of the ceramic heritage of Tavira”, informs the municipality.
The exhibition aims “not only to highlight the presence of ceramic workshops, especially on that street, but also to provide a look at centuries of pottery production, highlighting the importance of this industry at certain moments in the local history”.
Commissioned by Jaquelina Covaneiro (archaeologist at the Tavira Municipal Museum), the exhibition results from a collaboration between the Municipal Museum team, academics, and external researchers.
In focus will be the remains of the pottery workshops in Rua das Olarias, as well as ceramics from other areas (Lisbon, Alto Alentejo and Seville), complemented by explanatory texts and a short film that illustrates the different stages of the archaeological interventions carried out in the Rua das Olarias.
