<p class="title_brown"><strong>Museum of the Shrine of Fatima</strong></p>

<p class="subtitle_brown">Building of the Rectory</p>

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The Museum of the Shrine of Fatima was created by Mg. Jos&eacute; Alves Correia da Silva, through a letter&nbsp;<em>Museum-Library of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima</em>&nbsp;in order to preserve &ldquo;the remains of a past that starts (started) to be distant&quot; and to gather a collection of historical, artistic and ethnographic items that could protect the memory of the testimonies of international pilgrimages of the Pilgrim Virgin statue and the relics related to the history of the apparitions and their protagonists. Intuiting what were the necessities of a museum, the letter explains about the concepts of inventory, exhibition and storage procedure.<br />
Although it has never functioned in an independent building, the Museum of the Shrine always sought to fulfil the assignments that modern museology requires from Museological institutions: inventory work, study of collections, conservation, exhibition and diffusion. Indeed, in a more empirical way or more systematically, the Shrine has made efforts to accomplish this purpose, so that the pilgrims can contact some of the foundations which are at the basis of the message of Fatima and with some of the cultural productions that emanate from it.</p>
