Fifth annual Museum Day


Catherine Culver reported to Historic City News that on Saturday, September 26, 2009, both Government House Museum of History and Archaeology and Colonial Spanish Quarter Museum will participate in the fifth annual Museum Day, presented by Smithsonian magazine.

Guest column: Age of Discovery


The Padrão dos Descobrimentos is a Monument to the Discoveries that celebrates the Portuguese who took part in the Age of Discovery of the 15th and 16th centuries. It is located on the estuary of the Tagus River in the Belem parish of Lisboa, Portugal, where ships departed to their often unknown destinations.