In Our Care. The Keeper's Choice.
“The behind the scenes of a museum in nine episodes.”
Nine security guards from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, in Lisbon, invite us to appreciate works of their choice from the Museum's permanent exhibition, in a presentation that crosses art, everyday life and biography.
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Nine security guards from the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, in Lisbon, invite us to appreciate works of their choice from the Museum's permanent exhibition, in a presentation that crosses art, everyday life and biography. Each episode is a first-person narrated documentary, reflecting different themes evoked by the personalities, experiences and opinions of the protagonists.
1.The Last Judgement
15-05-202214 minÁlvaro Costa came to Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in 2016, despite during his childhood having spent many school afternoons in the Museum's garden drawing. The themes in the "Last...
2.View of Lisbon
05-07-202214 minAntónio Machado joined the Museum's staff in 2015. Living in Amadora, in the suburbs of Lisbon, everyday he rediscovers the city not on his way to work, but through the 18th centur...
3.Virgin with Child
02-08-202212 minCarla Pereira has been in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga since 2017. She appreciates the tranquility of the surveillance work without neglecting the constant attention to the vi...
4.Adoration of the Magi
05-09-202213 minJeanine Baptista came from Azores, from the Museu Carlos Machado, in 2021. The pieces she comes across every day, now at Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, bring her imagination to lif...
5.Hell
10-10-202210 minDulce Gonzaga came to work for the MNAA in 2006, but her first time visiting the Museum was when she was 5 years old, by the hand of her grandfather. Raised near the 9 de Abril Gar...
6.Jūbako & Powder Flask
22-11-202210 minPaulo Almeida had already been in MNAA in 2014 and returned permanently in 2019, when he joined the board of technical assistants. As a surveillance guard, he has passionately stud...
7.Jar & Annunciation
02-01-202313 minSince he was a child, Paulo Pinheiro has had a great desire for discovery. Having arrived from Aveiro for a visit, this 14-year-old boy's first step in a great museum was precisely...
8.The Temptation of St. Anthony
07-02-202313 minEach day, Paulo Pires' routine alternates between long hours of surveillance and the turmoil of the errands service, which requires him to be always walking from one place to anoth...
9.Namban Folding Screens
17-05-202319 minSince 1996 at the MNAA, Pedro Miranda is one of the longest-serving employees in the institution. He saw the walls transform, colleagues come and go, new acquisitions, dozens of te...
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