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Integrated in the museum’s 30th anniversary program, “The reality revealed by light” intends to make known the history of photography, its evolution and the role of images in preserving memory, explains the municipality of Leiria in a statement.

In the Civic Center Creative City of Music, in Leiria, in addition to photographs, cameras and other equipment are exposed that witness “not only the technical evolution of photography, but also its artistic and documentary dimension, as a way to record events, places, people and ways of life”.

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Those responsible for the museum remember that a significant part of the museum’s heritage is the result of “donations from different geographies, which reflect the trust placed in the museum and the recognition of its role in safeguarding the history of the image”.

“ In revisiting these collections, the exhibition also pays tribute to all who contributed to the construction of this legacy, while providing the public with new ways of looking at images that continue to reveal stories, memories and perspectives about the world,” the statement adds.

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Over the last three decades, the museum has crossed art, science, history and education, stating itself as “a space of heritage preservation, research, experimentation and artistic creation”, the municipality stresses.

The inauguration of “The reality revealed by light” takes place this Friday at 5:30 p.m. The exhibition is patent until March 31, 2027.