You can now get to know the contents of four Madeira museums without ever leaving home. Medeira’s local government has just created the new online platform “Museus da Madeira”, which is basically a common online catalogue, made out of the databases of Museu Quinta das Cruzes, Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas, Museu Etnografico da Madeira and Mudas – Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Madeira.
This platform will make it easier to research the inventory in each of the museums. Research can be made over three levels – free, oriented and advanced – with each user choosing the most appropriate, but enabling him to combine criteria so as to attain a more specific result.
According to the new site, “the simultaneous availability of constructed, mobile and immaterial items, through quality digital content, is now possible, and is part of the strategy of Madeira’s Direcção Regional de Cultura, with the content being designed both for academic access, but also for the general public, both locally and abroad.
This platform is thus “an important source of information, strengthening the preservation and valuation of historical items fundamental for the Madeiran cultural identity.
