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New Bedford Whaling Museum trustee Eugene A. Monteiro and museum president James P. Russell travelled to the Cape Verde islands off the coast of West Africa in April for a week of meetings with government officials to explore the possibility of establishing a long-term whaling museum presence in the country, the www.southcoasttoday.com website reported.
The visit was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and the Cabo Verdean Institute of Cultural Heritage, whose chairman, Humberto Lima, was the signatory of a memorandum of understanding between the museum and his ministry during the visit of the Charles W. Morgan to New Bedford in July of 2014.
As part of the protocol, museum trustees have pre-approved long-term loans of artifacts in its collection for display in an appropriate location in the country.
The American delegation toured the island of Santiago and also visited the islands of São Nicolau for the inauguration of the Fisheries Museum and the island of São Vicente.
They brought with them a traveling exhibit which has been on display in San Francisco and San Diego for the past nine months and illuminates the shared legacies of Azorean, Cabo Verdean and Brazilian communities in the United States.
The Whaling Museum presence overseas is the latest in a series of collaborative projects, which began in 2011 with the creation of the Cabo Verdean Maritime Exhibition in New Bedford.
Dr. Mario Lucio Matias de Sousa Mendes, Minister of Culture, visited the museum in January 2014 in advance of the protocol agreement, formally adopted last July. Additional collaborations are expected to include a scholar-in-residence program via a curatorial fellowship, exhibitions and cultural programming.
New Bedford Whaling Museum: www.whalingmuseum.org
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