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Bringing the city close to you.

Casa da Música was described by The New York Times as “one of the most important concert halls built in the last 100 years”. The building, designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, in association with the Porto Office of Metropolitan Architecture, also houses the cultural institution Casa da Música Foundation, and three orchestras: Orquestra Nacional do Porto (Porto National Orchestra), Orquestra Barroca (Baroque Orchestra) and Remix Ensemble.

Fonoteca Municipal do Porto (FMP) is simultaneously a sound archive of the city – representative of a large part of the record production in Portugal, as well as imported records, by international artists and works of non-musical content, such as poetry or political speeches – and a public space of musical enjoyment.

The project takes on an informational and pedagogical commitment, open to all audiences, by producing podcasts, articles and visual displays on artists, themes, genres, among others, of the materials that make up the collection. FMP features a series of activities that reflect the intention of connecting the history of music to contemporary culture, which includes concerts by guest artists based on the existing archive, weekly active listening programmes, school visits and in-house artists.