The conservation and restoration work at the Jerónimos Monastery, as part of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2026, the Ministry of Culture said today.
These works are worth 3.7 million euros, are being carried out with funds from the PRR and “do not have funding from the World Monuments Fund Portugal”, reads the clarification note from the Ministry of Culture, released following the news about the completion of restoration work at the Jerónimos Monastery, with funding of 1.8 million euros from the World Monuments Fund, published today by the Lusa news agency.
The works financed by the World Monuments Fund Portugal Association (WMF-P) took place between 1994 and 2002, plus a collaboration between this Association and the now defunct Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage between 2014 and 2019.
The completion of these projects was marked on Monday by representatives of the private US organization and the public Cultural Heritage Institute. A WMF statement released today reported on the ceremony.
“The visit made yesterday [Monday] by the World Monuments Fund Portugal Association (WMF-P) to the Jerónimos Monastery aimed to celebrate the Association’s collaboration with the now defunct DGPC between 2014 and 2019, as well as the conservation and restoration projects and works on the exterior of the Belém Tower and the Jerónimos Monastery cloister, carried out respectively between 1994-1998 and between 1998-2002, which had the support of that Association,” reads the clarification note from the Ministry of Culture, which was supervised by Dalila Rodrigues, director of the Jerónimos Monastery and Belém Tower until she took office in April.
In January, the president of the Cultural Heritage Institute, João Carlos Santos, former head of the DGPC, specified that the works planned for the Jerónimos Monastery, under the PRR, will involve an investment of 3.7 million euros, to be carried out by 2026.
João Carlos Santos was speaking at the presentation session of the entities resulting from the extinction of the former DGPC – the Cultural Heritage Institute and the public corporate entity Museus e Monumentos de Portugal – which took place on January 4 at the Ajuda National Palace in Lisbon, and in the context of the increase in the RRP budget for Cultural Heritage from 150 million euros to 216.2 million euros: 165.8 million for the requalification of museums, monuments and castles, and 48.4 million for the requalification of National Theatres.
According to a statement released today by the Ministry of Culture, “the various phases of intervention at the Jerónimos Monastery, within the scope of the RRP, are expected to be fully completed in the first quarter of 2026.”
