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The Pavilhão de Portugal (In
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The Pavilion of Portugal ) is a building located in Alameda dos Oceanos, in
Parque das Nações The Parque das Nações (; ''Park of the Nations''), colloquially known as Expo (as the site of the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition), is a (civil parish) and typical Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. Loca ...
, a civil parish in
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History

In the
World's Fair A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specific site for a perio ...
in 1998 (
Expo'98 Expo '98 (1998 Lisbon Specialised Expo) was an official specialised World's Fair held in Lisbon, Portugal from Friday, 22 May to Wednesday, 30 September 1998. The theme of the fair was "The Oceans, a Heritage for the Future", chosen in part to c ...
), the building was responsible for housing the Portuguese National representation at that event. The building's entrance area is a large square covered by an imposing pre-stressed concrete canopy, which is based on the idea of a sheet of paper placed on two bricks, opening up space to the city to accommodate the various events that a space of this kind.


After Expo

After the exhibition, the building was left empty and waiting to be used. The proposals were varied, from the reuse of the space for a Headquarters of the Council of Ministers, to the creation of an architecture museum. In March 2015, it was announced in the press that the Portugal Pavilion would be sold, to settle part of Parque Expo's debt to the State. In May 2015, the Minister of Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy, Jorge Moreira da Silva, announced that the Pavilion was definitively handed over to the University of Lisbon, which was responsible for its maintenance. The university intends to be very active in areas such as education, scientific research, the promotion of knowledge and the transition to society of the work carried out by the University of Lisbon. The building will now have an auditorium for 600 people, exhibition rooms, offices, meeting rooms and a restaurant. The contract for the rehabilitation and requalification of the Portugal Pavilion will take place between 2019 and 2021, with a maximum global investment of 9.3 million euros, plus
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References

{{reflist University of Lisbon 1998 establishments in Portugal Parque das Nações