Temporary Exhibition
MAGICA: Ciência e Espetáculo no Século XIX

National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC), Lisbon

12 February - 4 May 2025

Public Visits & Roundtables
MAGICA: Ciência e Espetáculo no Século XIX

"The production and conservation of slides",  hosted by Márcia Vilarigues. "Music, theatre and magic lantern", hosted by Luísa Cymbron. "The animation of slides", hosted by Marta Soares. Exhibition MAGICA: Ciência e Espetáculo no Século XIX, National Museum of Natural History and Science. Lisbon, 21 February, 21 March, and 11 April 2025.

Public Visits & Magic Lantern Shows
MONSTRA 2025

Guided visits & Magic Lantern and Optical Theatre Show by Abi Feijó, Elsa Cerqueira and Samuel Martins Coelho. MONSTRA: Festival de Animação de Lisboa, National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC). Lisbon, 28 and 29 March 2025.

Invited Oral Presentation
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VII

"Red in the Light: Materiality and Conservation Challenges of Magic Lantern Slides". Otero, Vanessa; Sofia Pires; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VII, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. London, 21–22 March 2025.

Public Activity
European Researchers Night 2024

"Magic Lantern – Study, Safeguard, Uses and Reuses in 19th-Century Portugal", SCIGLO - Science for Global Challenges (Ciência para os Desafios Globais), European Researchers' Night (Noite Europeia dos Investigadores). National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC), Lisbon, 27 September 2024. 

Oral Presentation
VII JIF Conference

"Fading memories: The impact of photosensitive eosin lakes on the conservation of 19th-century hand-painted magic lantern slides". Otero, Vanessa; Sofia Pires; Márcia Vieira; João Pedro Veiga; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. VIII Jornadas Ibéricas de Fotoquímica (8’JIF) & I Franco-Iberian Conference on Photochemistry (1’FICP). Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Lisbon, 11-13 September 2024.

Oral Presentation
ESG15-NCM15-SGT  (History & Heritage)

"Glass in the spotlight: Investigating the origins of two 18th-century magic lantern slide sets in Portugal". Santos, Ângela; Alexandra Rodrigues; Carla Machado; Gilberto Pereira; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 15th European Society of Glass Conference, 15th International Conference on the Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials, and Annual Conference of the Society of Glass Technology (ESG15 – NCM15 - SGT). Churchill College, Cambridge, 15-19 July 2024. 

Poster Presentation
Gordon Research Conference

"Back to the Future: Revisiting the stability of madder colors by using historically accurate pigment formulations". Otero, Vanessa; Márcia Vieira, Artur Neves, Artur J. Moro, and Maria João Melo. Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research-Gordon Research Conference. Les Diablerets Conference Center, Switzerland. 7-12 July 2024. 

Invited Oral Presentation
E-MRS Spring Meeting 2024

"Through the limelight: Analysing the earliest collection of magic lantern glass slides in Portugal". Vilarigues, Márcia; Ângela Santos; Alexandra Rodrigues; Carla Machado; Gilberto Pereira; Vanessa Otero. 2024 Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS). Convention & Exhibition Centre of Strasbourg, France, 27-31 May 2024.

Oral Presentation
Conference Outside the Theatre

"La música en las exhibiciones científicas, aerostáticas y fantasmagóricas de Étienne-Gaspard y Eugène Robertson en la Península Ibérica". Peliz, Joana. 2024. Outside the Theatre: Music in Unconventional Venues of Nineteenth-Century Europe. Edificio Histórico de la Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 23-25 May 2024.

Invited Oral Presentation
Encontros no ANIM 2024

"MAGICA: Projeto de investigação sobre as coleções de vidros de lanterna mágica da Cinemateca + Demonstração de projeção de lanterna mágica". Vilarigues, Márcia; Vanessa Otero; Ângela Santos. 2024. Encontros no ANIM 2024, 23-25 May 2024, Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema. Arquivo Nacional da Imagem em Movimento (ANIM), Loures, Portugal, 23 July 2024.

Oral Communication
Pint of Science 2024

"A lanterna mágica - luz e cor no século XIX". Vilarigues, Márcia. 2024. Pint of Science Portugal: Pint'arte, 13-15 May 2024. The Queen Ale - Craft Beer Bar, Lisbon, Portugal, 15 May 2024.

Public Activity
EXPO FCT 2024

"As Pinturas Transparentes do século XIX". Santos, Ângela. EXPO FCT 2024: Percurso Gustave Eiffel. Department of Conservation and Restoration, NOVA FCT, 10 April 2024.

Oral Presentation
Colour Matters 2023

"Exploring the Winsor & Newton 19th Centruy Archive Database to support cultural heritage material studies". Otero, Vanessa; Raquel Marques; Mark Clarke; Leslie Carlyle; Márcia Vilarigues; Maria J. Melo. Chromotope International Conference, Colour Matters: Exploring Colour and Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914). Trinity College, Oxford, 6-8 December 2023.

Oral Presentation
II ENHQ

"Shedding light into the earliest Portuguese collection of magic lantern slides". Santos, Ângela; Alexandra Rodrigues; Carla Machado; Gilberto Pereira; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. II Encontro Nacional de História da Químic (ENHQ), Portuguese Society of Chemistry. Online, 8-9 September 2023.

Oral Presentation
TOSC@lisboa.2023

"A “true féerie”: Antunes/Machado’s Venus and some transnational dimensions of Luso-Brazilian musical theatre in the long 19th century". Peliz, Joana. 2023. TOSC@lisboa.2023 - 5th Transnational Opera Studies Conference. Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 July 2023.

Oral Presentation
XVIII ECerS Conference & Exhibition

"Tangible Facets of the Art of Painting Glass Slides for Projection by Magic Lanterns". Vilarigues, Márcia; Andreia Ruivo; Carla Machado; Vanessa Otero. 2023. XVIII ECerS -  Conference & Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society. Lyon Convention Centre, Lyon, France, 2-6 July 2023.

Oral Presentation
TECHNART 2023

"Improving the identification of red lake pigments on historical hand-painted magic lantern glass slides". Veiga, Tiago; Paula Nabais; Andreia Ruivo; João Carlos Lima; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2023. TECHNART 2023 - International conference on analytical techniques in art and cultural heritage. Lisbon, Portugal, 7-12 May 2023.

Oral Presentation
Materials 2023

"The Carpenter & Westley's art of painting magic lantern glass slides: the contribution of material characterisation studies". Santos, Ângela; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2023. "MATERIAIS 2023 - Sustainability for a Future", XXI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais, and the XII International Materials Symposium. Centro Cultural Vila Flor. Guimarães, Portugal, 3-6 April 2023.

Oral Presentation
American Chemical Society Meeting

"Winsor & Newton's 19th-century manufacturing processes: How science unveils the artists' colorman choices". Otero, Vanessa; Tiago Veiga, Márcia Vilarigues, Maria João Melo. 2023. Crossroads of Chemistry - Science in Support of Technical Art History, American Chemical Society Spring 2023 Metting. Indiana Convention Center. Indianapolis, IN & Hybrid, 26-30 March 2023.

Oral Presentation
American Chemical Society Meeting

"Hand-painted magic lantern glass slides: the influence of the light source and materials on the projected images". Vilarigues, Márcia; Ângela Santos; Carla Machado; Vanessa Otero. 2023. Crossroads of Chemistry - Science in Support of Technical Art History, American Chemical Society Spring 2023 Metting. Indiana Convention Center. Indianapolis, IN & Hybrid, 26-30 March 2023.

Poster Presentation
ICOM-CC ATSR Meeting

"The W&N 19th century manufacture of madder reds: application to magic lantern slides". Otero, Vanessa; Tiago Veiga; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. The 9th Interim Meeting of the Art Technological Source Research Working Group, "Work in Progress: The artists’ gestures and skills explored through art technological source research". Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Paris, 24–25 November 2022.

Oral Presentation
ICOM-CC Glass & Ceramics Meeting

"Challenges in the interventive conservation of hand-painted magic lantern glass slides: An overview of cleaning practices for paint layers". Santos, Ângela; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2022: the 6th Interim Meeting of the Glass and Ceramics Working Group. Department of Conservation and Restoration & VICARTE, FCT NOVA. Lisbon, 9-11 November 2022.

Oral Presentation
Dyes in History and Archaeology 2022

"Finding madder reds in 19th-early 20th-century oil paintings". Veiga, Tiago; Artur Moro; Paula Nabais; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues; Maria João Melo. 2022. Conference – Dyes in History and Archaeology 2022. Swedish National Heritage Board. Visby, 11–13 October 2022.

Talk/Debate
Seminários de Cultura Material da Ciência by MUHNAC-ULisboa

"Fabulosas Pinturas Projetadas com Lanternas Mágicas: Onde Estão e Como se Preservam?". Vilarigues, Márcia; Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero. 2022. Seminários de Cultura Material da Ciência, moderação de Marta Lourenço, National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) of the University of Lisbon (ULisboa). Youtube, 26 September 2022.

Poster Presentation
Encontro Ciência'22

"Preventive Conservation of Painted Magic Lantern Slides". Santos, Ângela; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. Encontro Ciência'22, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. Lisbon, 16-18 May 2022.

Oral Presentation
B-Magic Final Conference

"Preventive conservation challenges of hand-painted magic lantern glass slides". Santos, Ângela; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. B-Magic Final Conference, University of Antwerp, FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerpen. Antwerp, 5–7 May 2022.

Invited Oral Presentation
Colour and Poetry: A Symposium IV

"Recovering the art of hand-painting magic lantern glass slides". Otero, Vanessa; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. 2022. Colour & Poetry: A Symposium IV, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. London, 20–22 March 2022.