Our main purpose in publishing these timelines is to publicize those documents from our collections selected to illustrate and document those topics, associating them with a particular chronological context, suggesting threads of research and producing a web of content relationships between the various information resources on each subject that exist at the Foundation and beyond.
These timelines result from the processing and curation of the collections and/or from research projects undertaken by the Art Library and Archives’ team, its partners - other departments of the Foundation, schools and universities, research centres, museums, archives, and libraries - or individual readers and researchers. They are open-ended works that are constantly being updated.
Timeline of the creation of the mobile libraries of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s network. This unparalleled programme towards the promotion of reading among the Portuguese population with less access to education and culture, was operated throughout the country between 1958 and 2002.
Chronology of grants awarded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to social welfare institutions for the construction, extension and refurbishment of facilities in Portugal between 1956 and 1986, through its Charity (1956-1971) and Health and Social Protection (1971-1986) services.
In the year that marks the centenary of Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão's birth, we present a gallery of images from the Gulbenkian Archives that portray her in the different roles she played in the Foundation over more than three decades.
This timeline presents the main facts concerning the life of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, businessman, diplomat, art collector and philanthropist of Armenian origin.
