The Oliveira Lima Library in Lisbon

In this presentation, researchers and librarians from Portugal, Brazil and the United States discuss the Oliveira Lima Library in Washington and its documentary and artistic holdings. As part of the partnership between the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and The Catholic University of America, the Art Library and Archives is organising this session with specialists who are closely familiar with the Oliveira Lima Library’s holdings. In addition, an exhibition of reproductions of documents from the collection will be on display in the Congress Area, next to the Auditorium, on the day. This event will be presented in Portuguese without simultaneous translation and livestreamed on this page. About the Oliveira Lima Library and The Catholic University of America The Oliveira Lima Library was established through the 1916 donation of the private library of the Brazilian diplomat, historian and bibliophile Manoel de Oliveira Lima (1867–1928) and his wife, Flora (1863–1940). Opened in 1924, it now holds more than 60,000 volumes, along with a collection of rare documents, manuscripts, maps, and works of art. It is one of the leading centres of reference outside Portugal and Brazil for the study of the Portuguese presence throughout the world, with particularly rich holdings on Portuguese expansion and on the social, cultural and diplomatic history of Portugal and Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The art collection, comprising several hundred paintings, drawings, prints…