Join the Mosaic Fest at the European Researchers’ Night
Creating a virtual mosaic on your mobile phone is the proposal of the Mosaic Fest for the European Researchers’ Night, which will take place in Coimbra on September 26, from 5:00 PM to 12:00 AM.
You can visit us at the Loja dos Sabores da Região de Coimbra (18 Ferreira Borges Street), where, under the theme “More Creative Citizens!”, we will invite you to express your creativity, in dialogue with the Roman past and the world of mosaics.
This initiative is part of the Science Route, organized as part of this year’s edition of the European Researchers’ Night, a science communication event held annually in various cities across Europe, aiming to raise awareness and engage the public in science, bringing researchers and civil society closer together.
Mosaic Fest is a project under development within CEGOT – Centre for Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Coimbra, in collaboration with MosaicoLab.Pt.
This activity is funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the project UIDB/04084/2025 – CEGOT and UIDP/04084/2025.
Mosaic Fest 2020
December / Monographic Museum of Conímbriga – National Museum
The image shows part of one of the mosaic floors of the Ruins of the Roman city of Conímbriga. Being a must visit, Conímbriga offers a relevant set of mosaic floors to be discovered.
The “Festa do Mosaico” is also an invitation to an attentive and creative visit dedicated to the amazing mosaic floors present in Conímbriga.
(The Program is soon to be announced)
Mosaic Week, in August, at the Conímbriga Monographic Museum
The first Mosaic Week is about to start: it will take place at the Monographic Museum of Conímbriga – National Museum, on weekdays from August 1 to 9 (always from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm), promoted by MosaicoLab. It is intended for all visitors of the Roman city ruins, with ticket purchased for that same day, with at least 10 years old and of any nationality.
The activities to be carried out will allow participants to make their own mosaic, which they can take home, providing all the information and follow-up necessary to create it, as well as materials and means.
The sessions will be supervised by Humberto Figueiredo, PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid and coordinator of the project “Rota do Mosaico – Conímbriga e Sicó”, promoted by MosaicoLab. This project aims to allow a deeper involvement of the public with the Roman mosaic heritage present in the axis consisting of the Monographic Museum and Roman Ruins of Conímbriga, the Roman Villa of Rabaçal and the Monumental Complex of Santiago da Guarda, providing various creative experiences dedicated to the mosaic, open to various audience profiles and accessible in different languages.
More information about the Mosaic Week 2019 is available at the ticket office of the Monographic Museum of Conímbriga or online, at MosaicLab’s website or Facebook page, respectively at mosaicolab.pt or facebook.com/mosaicolabportugal.