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MAGICA at the EXPO FCT - Open Day
The 16th Edition of the EXPO FCT, organized by the NOVA School of Science and Technology at Campus de Caparica (Almada), will count on the participation of the MAGICA project.
On the 10th of April, several activities from all of the Departments will be presented to high-school students in an open-day format.
The MAGICA activity will be part of the Gustave Eiffel route and will be held from 9h30 am to 4 pm by our team member Ângela Santos.
The Program and Registration can be accessed HERE.
Posted on 6 April 2024The Magic Lantern was the first optical instrument for the projection of moving images allied with sounds and music, used worldwide.
MAGICA is the first systematic and comprehensive study on the relation between the tangible and intangible facets of the art of painting magic lantern glass slides and its use at science academies and entertainment places in Portugal.
This project emerged from a set of repositories of magic lanterns' images, preserved in several Portuguese collections, and aims to develop preservation methods for those images and try to understand how they relate to academic and cultural life (with a special focus on performing arts) of the country during the 19th century.
With an interdisciplinary team of conservation scientists, musicologists, conservators, curators, media archaeologists, theatrologists and artists, the MAGICA project will impact on the preservation, interpretation, rehabilitation and valorisation of this precious heritage as well as other associated documents such as theatrical texts, scores and iconographic records.