It is not a proper museum. Is more like a small
exhibition that function as an interpretation centre. It opened in 2004, in the
medieval tower of Esporão, and is one of the two exhibitions specifically
dedicated to prehistoric ditched enclosures in Portugal (the other one is in
Alcalar, Algarve).
I was involved in the conception of that exhibition.
And I am not comfortable with it anymore. In the last nine years the research
in Perdigões has increased and what we know now is not reflected in that
exhibition. But, even so, a visit will give a fair notion of the site and of
its importance for the understanding of Neolithic and Chalcolithic communities
of the region.
Some updating is expected this year. But what I would
like to stress is that this effort of display is totally financed by private initiative,
by the company who ones the site (Esporão S.A.) and by the company who is
leading its research program (Era), although public support also exist for
research.
This is a project that reaches the age of 15 this
year. Slowly, it has grown to become one of the most important projects of
Portuguese archaeology, with national and international expression.
In this weekend there was another moment of public
display. It was in the “Festa da Arqueologia” that took place in the ruins of
Carmo convent (the headquarters of the Portuguese Association of
Archaeologists). There, ideas were shared and
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