Tikva, the new Jew to be inaugurated in Lisbon.
The Studio Libeskind of Daniel Libeksind will be in charge of the architecture of the new jewish museum which will be inaugurated in Belém, Lisbon , still no scheduled date. What we do know for now is his appearance.
Sloping white walls crossed by blue shapes will mark its exterior, which will cover some 12,000 square meters in its entirety. The Jewish Museum, called Tikvah (“hope” in Hebrew”) will have two floors and will be located to the southwest of the city, with views of the 16th-century Torre de Belém and along the Tagus River.
One of its main characteristics is its geometric shapes. , which combine with glass forms and a green roof. The museum will be built on a riverfront plot, with a series of outdoor steps leading to a generous courtyard and entrance, so that it can also be enjoyed outside.
The museum wants to remember the Jewish history of Lisbon.
THE MUSEUM AND ITS OBJECTIVES
The Tikva museum aims to promote Portuguese Jewish life and its contribution to the history of the city of Lisbon . Their community originated in the early 19th century, 300 years after the Edict of Expulsion (1492) and almost a century after the Spanish Inquisition expelled them. The community grew up with Sephardic Jews, mainly from Gibraltar and Morocco, who settled there as a colony creating shopping malls.
"The museum will tell a unique story of almost 2,000 years of longevity and will deal with the plurality of cultures that give Portuguese Judaism a peculiar and very rich character," said the president of the Haggadah Association, Esther Mucznik, in a press release. "It is this history and this memory that the museum, with its daring and innovative project, will make it known to the national and foreign public”.
Tikva has had the support of the Lisbon City Council and the Association Hagadá, which have been working on it since December 2020. Originally it was intended to be built in the oldest neighborhood of Lisbon, Alfama, but finally the chosen one was Belém.
For its part, Studio Libeskind already has experience in this type of projects They have already designed several similar museums, including the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, and the Danish Jewish Museum in Copenhagen, as well as the Holocaust memorials in the Netherlands and Canada, which were completed in 2018. in Ottawa.