Rural Workers Museum - Largo 5 de Outubro

A rare collection. Congratulations

Great. Schedule somewhat limiting.

You will find in front of Saumur a small establishment dressed by a woman and her father

Space very well taken advantage of, very interesting booty.

Extraordinary museum. With the cycle of cereals well explando and good collection of implements and agricultural utensils.

Well received. A small museum, but it shows very well the hard work of the countryside. Very interesting and educational for the kids. Congratulations

Excellent reception, good collection, clear and simple, with concrete explanations, it was a pleasure to visit! Congratulations!!!

The museological pole appears as part of the “Revitalize A Bella” project, which resulted from an application to the AGRIS Operational Program. This project is promoted by the Parish Council of Abela in partnership with the Municipality of Santiago do Cacém. This action consists of using the former headquarters of the Guarda Nacional Republicana, belonging to the Abela Parish Council, intended to show part of the rural life of the municipality. Built in the early forties of the 20th century, it functioned as a School / Medical Post and as a barracks for the National Republican Guard. The collections / objects presented transmit knowledge of a rural society, belonging to the past, but still close enough to be a space for sharing memories and an identified reference that unites and identifies different generations. In the museological pole, it is intended to address the memory of a society that, in the last decades, has been profoundly transformed, as well as the relationship of belonging of a population with its territory, whether at the scale of the locality, parish, municipality or eventually of a microregion. Preserving everyday rural memories, that's how the RURAL WORK MUSEUM arises. The Parish Council of Abela and the City Council of Santiago do Cacém intend to pay homage to the men and women who, over the centuries, painstakingly tore up these lands, transforming vast areas of heath into magnificent bread fields. The Museum of Rural Work is a place of affection, meeting the past, the present and the future. It seeks to preserve and perpetuate knowledge, traditions, memories and ways of life of a rural daily life in profound transformation for future generations. A Museum that asks for time to see and feel. Right at the entrance, an inscription by the writer Miguel Torga recalls that same time: «The Alentejo always reminds me of a huge sundial, where Man acts as a hand of Time». The motto is given. There is talk of the territory and its protagonists. This space of belonging causes the population to end up oftentimes, as it is the guide of friends or family members who travel to the region, recalling the past times that marked their lives of hard work, far away for the new generations who are used to it. looking at cereals and vegetables on supermarket shelves. In order to make the new generations aware of the reality of the past, visits are carried out with the Schools of the Municipality. Here, you can see through photographs, all the agricultural work and tinker with cereals such as wheat, barley, rice with husks, and thus get to know the real cereals.