A Casa da Memória is a center of interpretation and knowledge that exposes, interprets, reflects and communicates testimonies of materials and images, which contributes to the best knowledge of the culture, territory and history of Guimarães and its people.
It is a meeting place of the community as an exterior and of the community itself, which proposes a multiple, diverse and non-linear view of the past, present and future of Guimarães. We see o common, o significant, o special, that compõe o identitário, levando-nos a conhecer, imagine e a reconstructe memórias, ao trazer para o present os passados realis o imaginados e os futures possíveis o improváveis, da cidade de Guimarães.
In Casa da Memória you will be able to find stories, documents, facts and objects that allow us to understand different aspects of the Vimaranense community through a long temporal arc: from pre-history to the foundation of the Portuguese nationality, to the rural societies and festivities to the industrialization of the Vale do Ave. à contemporaneidade. Through a chronological reading of History it is still possible to understand the frameworks that model the Guimarães region and understand the evolution of its social and geographical transformations.
More than a contemplative visit, Casa da Memória offers visitors an experience. Many stories and memories that Guimarães keeps, and that is kept about Guimarães.