The Lanity Museum safeguard the heritage associated with the wool industry
In a territory that has as its matrix the Serra da Estrela and historic center of Covilhã, o Laniness museum is also designated Muslan, and constitutes a center of the University of Beira Interior, organism with administrative and financial autonomy protected by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
Visit to the Witness Museum
The Industrial Tourism Visit that the University of Beira Interior Museum gives us us intends to, through uniqueness, authenticity and exemplary of the testimonies preserved in this museum, Get to know one of the oldest industries better, A of Lanifícios, that began by asserting itself as a pure act of survival of the human species and was assuming, over time, a growing quality and artistic expression, that have accompanied the development of our societies until the present.
History
Based in Covilhã, in facilities at the University of Beira Interior, o Laniness museum It was instituted by Rectory Order No. 12/89, from may 20 of January.
Was created with the purpose of preserving and recovering the area of the dyeing of the Real cloth factory, a state manufacturing, founded by Marquis of Pombal em 1764 and classified as a property of public interest (Decree-Law No. 28/82 from may 26 of February).
Its institutionalization aimed to safeguard the archaeological estate collected in the context of the architectural intervention performed to reconvert the Real cloth factory in university facilities, as well as contribute to the cultural dynamization of the community where the course of Textile engineering Da ubi.
O Laniness museum resulted from the application of intervention methodologies developed in the scope of heritage and industrial archeology, After the celebration, em 1986, of a cooperation protocol among the still University Institute of Beira Interior, Currently University of Beira Interior, and the Association of Industrial Archeology of the Lisbon Region. Inaugurated in 1992 and open to the public, under normal regime, em 1996, presents itself as a science and technology museum and, statutory, like a Center by UBI.
The route of wool – TRANSLANA
Under the project Rota da Wool-translain, through a historical path that unites Serra da Estrela to the natural richness of the wavy plains of Spanish extremadura, It was based on the marks of wool printed in the landscape and culture of men who inhabit this territory of border, anchored by two museums that constitute the beginning and end of a road that is recognized along the path that was defined in the landscape, and identifies itself as that of Rota da Wool-translain: o Vostell Museum of Malpartida de Cáceres e o Laniness museum Da ubi, In Covilhã.
O Laniness museum Integrated in the Industrial Tourism Network of the Centro region, intends to make known the history and current of the lanifice industry. Departure, And have fun here to know all about the witches of the zone.