The Regional Secretariat for Education and Cultural Affairs, Sofia Ribeiro, through the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs and in partnership with the Regional Directorate for Tourism, presented the Diário de Bordo Cultura Açores project on Wednesday afternoon at the Lisbon Tourism Exchange (BTL).

In a session included in this Wednesday’s Azorean program, João Paulo Constância, director of the Carlos Machado Museum, and Diana Santos, Senior Technician at the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs, presented the Diário de Bordo Cultura Açores – a project launched in September 2023 to encourage visits to the region’s eight museums, the Ecomuseum of Corvo and the Arquipélago-Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, to include the tourist-cultural product in the tourist dynamics of the Azores destination, which is this year’s national guest region at BTL.

Inspired by collecting, scrapbooking, and sticker art, this product is a travel diary focused on the 22 visitable spaces and associated collections of the 10 museums on the nine islands.

The product is intended to serve as a support for users to personally record their visit experiences while at the same time giving them advantages through discounts on publications and services, as well as attendance prizes, to be awarded according to three levels of completion of the visit itinerary to the network of spaces in question.

The project aims to facilitate the involvement of citizens as consumers of culture and promote the enjoyment of the multiplicity of cultural aspects addressed in the different cultural facilities targeted, emphasizing that these themes complement each other and contribute to a sense of cultural identity.

From Government Press release–https://portal.azores.gov.pt/web/comunicacao/news-detail?id=13954263

Translated to English as a community outreach program from the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI) and the Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures Department (MCLL) as part of Bruma Publication and ADMA (Azores-Diaspora Media Alliance)  at California State University, Fresno–PBBI thanks the sponsorship of the Luso-American Development Foundation from Lisbon, Portugal (FLAD)