Heritage | Wine Museum to move to Ká Ho

The Secretary For Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam, has revealed yesterday during the Policy Adress presentation (see page 4) that the Macau Wine Museum will move to the former CEM facilities in Ká Ho (Coloane). The museum’s relocation is due to the expansion of the Macau Grand Prix Museum, which is also located at the Tourism Activities Center.

A 50-year-old woman who lives close to the Wine Museum, and works in a nearby grocery store, expects that fewer tourists may visit the area and there may be fewer customers in her shops. “If [the wine museum] moves away, it will have some impact over our business, more or less,” she said.

Tina Loi, a Macau student at the Macao Polytechnic Institute, also expects fewer visitors to the area. “It might be better [for the traffic],” she said. “Often, when I go to school in the morning, many people walk on the roads, and the traffic is bad. Many tourism buses park here.”

Lois said that these tourism buses normally prevent other buses from moving through the streets during rush hours in the morning.

A 27-year-old Hong Kong tourist, surnamed Chan, offered the Times a different opinion. “I don’t think there will be much of an impact because most people come here to gamble and to visit the Oceanus,” he said.

The museum is a 2,400 square meters space, divided into three different areas: Historical Information, Cellar, and Exhibition Area.

One of the main aims of this museum is to bring the visitor into contact with the social, economic and cultural importance of wine in Portuguese culture, traditions, daily life and celebrations.

The exhibition space houses around 1,143 different brands of Portuguese and Chinese wine from various regions in Portugal.

Around 756 are commercial wines and the remaining wines are collection wines. The oldest bottle is an 1815 vintage Port.

The museum also presents various examples of wine production in China.

Additionally, there is a set of mannequins wearing the regional costumes from different regions of Portugal.

The Macau Grand Prix Museum, is expected to be closed for renovation after the first half of next year. Julie Zhu