2016Centenary of Museums - Abade Baçal - First Day Cover

We are commemorating the centenary of the Museum of Abade de Baçal and the 150th anniversary of the birth of Francisco Manuel Alves, the abbot of Baçal.
On 13 November 1915, the "Museu Regional de Obras de Arte, Peças Arqueológicas e Numismática de Bragança" (Bragança Regional Museum of Artworks and Archaeological and Numismatic Artefacts) was established in Bragança under the republican ideology, which considered education and culture and, by extension, museums, to be essential elements in affirming the status of the country, with a drive towards literacy, modernisation, and development within Portuguese society.