The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) is a contemporary art museum in Lisbon, Portugal that crosses three areas in a space for debate, discovery, critical thinking and international dialogue. It is located in the Belém area, next to the Tagus river, on land conquered by Lisbon from the Tagus river, at the end of the 19th century, in one of the most historic monumental areas of the city where we can find, among others, the Jerónimos Monastery, the Centro Cultural Center of Belém, the Belém Tower, the Monument to the Discoveries, the Palace and Museum of the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, or the National Cordoaria.
Building classified as a Property of Public Interest, it consists of two poles: the old Central Tejo and the New Building. The Tejo Power Station was inaugurated in 1990, as the Electricity Museum, with the reuse of an old power plant and a new building (designed by British architect Amanda Levete) in October 2016. The MAAT occupies an area of 38,000 square meters and is an integral part of the EDP Foundation that belongs to the EDP Group – Energias de Portugal, SA. The two buildings are joined by a garden designed by the landscape architect.
Visual Natures The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Centuries The result of more than two years of critical research in climate science, creative practices and ecopolitics, Naturezas Visuais is the continuation of the journey started in 2021 with the scientifically based installation Earth Bits – Sentir o Planeta and the public program Climate: Emergency. > Emergente, curated by maat’s first Climatic Collective. This research project studies the practices of collective action at the political, social and cultural level that, in the last hundred years, have been demonstrating how the transforming human understanding of “nature” – philosophical, biological and economic – is in the foundation of our communities’ ways of organizing, subsistence and governance as an expanding planetary model, both conceptually and practically. The resulting mapping makes a cross reading of four themes of study – artistic production and cultural events, technological innovations and scientific discoveries, social movements and reflections on global governance – which follows an approximate chronological order, from the 1950s to the 1950s. our days. To the challenge of the encyclopedic nature of the project, the presentation responds with the organization in three major linked themes – Deep Ecology (1950–1980), Planetary Complex (1990–2010) […]
Visit through the gardens of the EDP Foundation campus, a landscape project by Lebanese architect Vladimir Djurovic, which involves the pedestrian walkway between the Central and Maat buildings.
