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Lourinhã Museum was awarded the “Portugal Prestige Award”!
The work “Ark of Salvation” is a shelter for the individual imagination of each creator and contains objects, messages and photographs that represent both loved ones of the participants, as well as words of hope for humanity, making it a vehicle for transmitting stories, desires and needs stored in it.
Museum in the Village - Alcanadas goes to the Lourinhã Museum
The SAMP Museu na Aldeia project will take the Aldeia de Alcanadas (Batalha) to the Museu da Lourinhã (Municipality of Lourinhã) on March 8, 2022 (Tuesday). During this visit, the community will attend the inauguration of the collective work, which was created together with the museum professionals involved and the SAMP team.
The work “Ark of Salvation” is a shelter for the individual imagination of each creator and contains objects, messages and photographs that represent both loved ones of the participants, as well as words of hope for humanity, making it a vehicle for transmitting stories, desires and needs stored in it.
Researchers from the Lourinhã Museum excavate the last dinosaur eggs in Europe
An international team of Portuguese and Spanish paleontologists excavated a 68-million-year-old deposit near the Spanish Pyrenees that preserves a large dinosaur nesting area.
So far, paleontologists have identified more than twenty eggs on the surface but indicate that there could be more than a hundred. The eggs, spherical and measuring around 20 centimeters in diameter, are in an exceptional state of conservation and are grouped together, suggesting the existence of several nests.
Lourinhã Museum researcher solves decades-old mystery
Researcher Miguel Moreno Azanza, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Museu da Lourinhã, collaborated on a study of fossil eggshells, solving a mystery that was around three decades old. What animal laid these eggs?
News about crocodylomorphs that inhabited Lourinhã
Crocodylomorphs, a group that includes today's crocodiles and their closest ancestors, were very abundant and diverse at the end of the Jurassic, 150 million years ago. A new study, focused on tiny teeth collected from the cliffs of Lourinhã, has shown that at least five species cohabited nearby, in a system of Jurassic rivers that ran parallel to the newborn Atlantic Ocean.
Horácio Mateus Scientific Research Incentive Program
March 27, 2019 - The Lourinhã Ethnology and Archeology Group (GEAL)/Museu da Lourinhã presents today, at 2:30 pm, the Horácio Mateus Research Incentive Program (PIIHM).
This program aims to support research projects and advanced studies in the fields of Natural and Social Sciences, namely Anthropology, Archeology, Geology and/or Paleontology and Local History, focusing on the Municipality of Lourinhã. This year, only projects in the fields of Geology and/or Paleontology are considered.
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