The President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Miguel Albuquerque, announced this Saturday the creation of the Columbus and Discoveries Museum. “Porto Santo is going to expand the Colombo Museum,” the Madeira official said at the solemn session of the Porto Santo Council Day.
The goal is “to open a museum that honors the history, identity and uniqueness of the island as the starting point of Portuguese expansion” because, according to Albuquerque, Portugal “should not be ashamed of its glorious history, as it the world”, pointing out that all the pieces shown in this core will be related to places where the Portuguese were present.
For the head of the regional government of Madeira, the Portuguese epic is “not a symbol of oppression, but of courage, openness to the world and cosmopolitanism that will be perpetuated”.
Since 1989, Porto Santo has the Cristóvão Colombo House-Museum, which marks the discoverer’s passage on the island, where he lived and married. Now it will be a museum, a project that will help modernize the island of about 5,000 inhabitants, which, according to its rulers, “has a problem of double insularity, but it is a unique island” and with great appeal: “It the goal is to keep working, to take important and increasingly consistent steps to guarantee the quality of life for new generations and access to everything they are entitled to.”
Miguel Albuquerque also guaranteed that he will keep his promises to support mobility with the payment of the mobility grant, the construction of the new health unit in Porto Santo and the increase in the number of beds in the rest home.
Source: DN
