Far from Sight

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
06 october 2023 – 28 april 2024
Museum of Lisbon – Pimenta Palace | The Backroom

Far From Sight
Manuel Teixeira Gomes, between Lisbon and Bougie

Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1860–1941), the seventh president of the Portuguese Republic, spent time in Lisbon and took up residence in a long-since demolished house in Gibalta, a place overlooking the mouth of the River Tagus, known today as Alto da Boa Viagem (Caxias, municipality of Oeiras).

A biographical exhibition, which opens on the 100th anniversary of Teixeira Gomes' inauguration as President of the Republic, Far From Sight emphasises his experience as a collector and his long self-exile. 

After leaving the office and the country, in 1925, Teixeira gomes embarked on a peripatetic exile that took him to Bougie (the French name for the present-day Algerian city of Béjaïa). He remained there for the last decade of his life. While living at the Hotel L'Étoile, he resumed writing, published books and articles, corresponded with numerous friends, and managed his businesses and donations from afar. 

As well as works from the Museum of Lisbon's collection, the exhibition includes pieces from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, the Machado de Castro National Museum, the Museum of the Presidency of the Republic, and the Museum of the Orient. The contents are complemented by other objects, documents and first editions from the Casa Pia Atlético Clube, the National Library of Portugal, and the Lisbon Municipal Libraries.

Photography: Lisbon Municipal Archive

 

Opening: 05 october 2023, 6PM
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday; 10AM – 6PM
Tickets: 3€ (grants access to the whole space)
Address: Museum of Lisbon – Pimenta Palace, Campo Grande, 245
Contacts: + 351 217 513 200; info@museudelisboa.pt; www.museudelisboa.pt