In Atouguia da Baleia, a former medieval port now 5 km from the sea, cetacean bones can be found with intriguing regularity in grandmothers’ houses. The exhibition “A Baleia em Atouguia” rescued stories of the people of Peniche, and specifically the town of Atouguia, to the whale and whaling. The exhibition was inaugurated in March 2023 at CIAB – Interpretive Center of Atouguia da Baleia (part of the Museum Network of the Municipality of Peniche), curated by the Municipality and CHAM – Centre for the Humanities (NOVA FCSH), with scientific support from the ERC 4-OCEANS. Participatory museum strategies and collaborative and interdisciplinary techniques were applied in a process that called on the community to act as a producer of knowledge and as an inventory-taker, contributing to more effective management of local heritage, fostering the recovery of collective memory and the safeguarding of cultural and natural heritage.
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Vieira, Nina, Raquel Janeirinho, Rui Venâncio, and Cristina Brito. “‘A casa da minha avós’. Uma exposição colaborativa sobre a história das baleias em Atouguia da Baleia.” Práticas Da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past 19 (2024): 185–216. https://doi.org/10.48487/pdh.2024.n19.36984
