Integrated into the Commemorations of the Centenary of the Birth of José Saramago, this exhibition aims to present the workers of the Mundet factory and the cork oaks, labour and raw material essential to the expansion of the Mundet cork business and, simultaneously, to the economic, sociocultural and political development of Seixal throughout the 20th century.
The Mundet Factory was powered by the labour of many hundreds of workers arriving from every point of the country but especially from the Alentejo region in the 1950s and 1960s. In Seixal council, these migrants integrated into the local
community and set down their roots and hopes.