Introduction

Although its main mission is to assure the viability, effectiveness and stability of the regional energetic network, namely in its production, transport, distribution and commercialisation sector, the EEM (Madeira Electric Company) is proud of being an organization working in reciprocity with the involving social context. So, on the 24th of November of 1997, the Madeira Electric Company opened its museum – ‘Casa da Luz’ to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the introduction of electric energy in Madeira.

Fittingly in the noble part of the city, more exactly in the former building that lodged the Thermal Unit of Funchal, the ‘Casa da Luz’ museum assumes itself as an active centre of cultural promotion. The museum strengthens the fact of public companies being able to take a role beyond their initial tendency in the society they are part of as well as adding to their development strategy, practices to empower the relationship with society. Based upon those general guiding lines, the museum ‘Casa da Luz’ aims not only to promote a greater proximity between the Madeira Electric Company and the Madeiran population according to the new European parameters on museology, but also to offer an iconographic and written vision about the evolution of electricity in Madeira and operate as a venue for exhibitions of the most various Madeiran, national and international artists.

By providing those services, the museum ‘Casa da Luz’ aims to be able to actively contribute for an instructive interaction on themes, such as: information, communication, present and future technologies, dialogue and exchange of creative experiences and development of Madeira’s Cultural and Civic Patrimony.

Director:
Luisa Garrido
 
Address:
Rua da Casa da Luz n.º 2
9050-029 Funchal

Telephone:
291 211 480

Fax:
291 233 990

E-mail:
mcl@eem.pt

Opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday: 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.; 2.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Admission Tickets: 2 €
Students and Pensioners 1, 50 €
 
Site:
www.eem.pt