Quake

In Belém, Quake turns the most traumatic day in Lisbon’s history into an experience that brings together memory, science and imagination. Dedicated to the earthquake of 1755, it follows the chain of events that destroyed much of the city - the tremor, the tsunami and the fires - and shows how, from that ruin, a new Lisbon emerged, with the Pombaline rebuilding and the systematic use of anti-seismic solutions. Rather than simply displaying objects, the visit uses immersive rooms, simulators, video and interactive devices to convey the human and urban scale of the catastrophe. But Quake does not look only to the past. Its mission is also to explain seismic phenomena and to remind visitors that Portugal remains in an active zone, where preparation can make a difference. Between the lost city of the eighteenth century and the questions of the present, this is a place where the past appears not as a distant ruin, but as warning, knowledge and transformation.