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Macau Cultural Centre

Centre

The Macao Cultural Centre marks a new era in the cultural history of Macao by offering unique venues for artistic events, conferences and exhibitions, increasing cultural interchange and helping to expand culture amongst the Macao population.
Thus, the Cultural Centre fulfils the cultural needs and improves the quality of life of the cosmopolitan population of Macao. In architectural terms the Cultural Centre is the most recent reference in the Macao urban skyline. With a total area of 45,000 m², the centre includes a garden, a complex of two Auditorias and an Art Museum.
The complex of auditoria is composed of two venues: the Grand Auditorium, with capacity for 1,114 spectators and the Small Auditorium destined for small shows and cinema.
Both auditorias include simultaneous interpretation rooms and modern sound and illumination systems. Besides, there are also conference rooms, exhibition hall, orchestra rehearsal room, multi-purpose rehearsal room, dance studio, green room, etc.
The building comprises an area of 11,920 m², in 5 stories. The Museum includes 5 exhibition rooms in an area of 4,000 m² approximately. This is, in fact, the largest audiovisual space in Macao. The Museum features also a conference room and a multimedia library.
Other facilities at the Cultural Centre are a cafeteria, a bar, box office and information desk.
In summary, the Macao Cultural Centre is an ideal venue for the presentation of local and international artist.

The Macau Museum

Museum

It is in the best interests that the future of Macao and its populations can defend their social and cultural values, maintain and enrich their valuable heritage of four and a half centuries of harmonious socialising between two such different cultures. That the foundations for the creations in Macao of Natural Museological Institutions that reflect not just the history of the territory but equally the socio-cultural characteristics of its population, attempting to create a lively establishment, operational and essentially orientated by the following programmatic objectives.
To promote a greater understanding and interest in Macao’s unique cultural and historical heritage through a programme of exhibitions, lectures, publications, research and extension services.
To create and develop collections related to Macao’s archaeology, local history, natural history, ethnography and ethnology.
To serve, through research and study as a centre of learning for citizens by providing them with a vivid environment of discovery, learning and problem solving in matters related to Macao’s cultural and historical heritage.
To co-operate and assist in the recording, preservation and display of items related to the historical and significance of Macao with special emphasis on interchanges between Macao and other countries.
To co-operate and assist in the study and dissemination of knowledge related to Macao’s cultural and historical heritage with learned societies within the outside Macao.
Having established the programmatic foundations for the new museum which is called “The Museum of Macao”.An extensive survey was made of all possible hypothesis of the location of the future museum, highlighted amongst them was the Monte fortress as being the most symbolic and historical location in view of the intended objectives.
The ancient fortification built by the Jesuit Fathers in 1626, on the peak of the Monte Hill, perched high above the city centre was the chosen location for the Museum of Macao.
This Fortress built in a quadrilateral shape with four bastions in the corners and thick exterior walls made from “chunambo”, or taipa, a highly resistant material made from mortar containing sand, lime, fragments of shells and crushed oysters.
The Museum of Macao began planning in April 1995, construction was initiated in September 1996, and it was inaugurated on the 18 April 1998. The museum building in itself implanted within the interior of the fortress and the third floor above the soil level of the Fortress interior. Its total area is 2,800 meters square from which around 2,100 meters square is exhibition space.
The administrative building, already on the exterior of the fortress but joined to the Museum by way of a tunnel with escalators that pass under the walls, contains the technical and administrative offices of the museum as well as the management and technician centre security headquarters, auditorium, etc.
The exterior areas of the administration building which has the total area of 2,300 meters square house the museum shop and bar with esplanade to service the public and visitors.

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