US Today features Lisbon's Museu do Aljube that opened in Salazar's torture chamber in 2015

25 de Abril Esta é a madrugada que eu esperava O dia inicial inteiro e limpo Onde emergimos da noite e do silêncio E livres habitamos a substãncia do tempo

This is the dawn I was expecting The whole initial day is clean Where we emerge from the night and from silence And free we inhabit the substance of time

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen, O Nome das Coisas /The Name of Things   I am neither a history nerd nor a museum fanatic. But for strange reasons I find the history from my own life time very interesting. Especially if the “history” just out side my door… For the last 3 years I have been very curious about the horrors that took place behind  the wall of the anonymous  building in Rua de Augusto Rosa 42, just before Se when you come down from Graca – the former prison (or Salazar’s torture chamber) that opened in January 2015 as Museu Do Aljube (Museum of Resistance and Liberation). Yesterday the museum was featured in US Today 10 Best. We used the occasion to go visit the museum… Its definitely worth a visit.. Thomas   [caption id="attachment_15148" align="aligncenter" width="2065"] Museu do Aljube is part of the Spies Walking Tour that topped The Guardian’s The Best of Lisbon: Reader’s Traveltips earlier this year[/caption]  

Lisbon’s Museu do Aljube: Showcasing the Struggle for Democracy.

From fascism to freedom, this city center museum chronicles a dark chapter in Portugal’s past

I found this rare footage from 25 April in The Internet Archive – now I have an occasion to share it.

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