It is located on Rua Cravos de Abril, in the city of Marinha Grande, in the district of Leiria, in the province of Estremadura, in the Central region of Portugal
The House-Museum 18 January 1934, opened on 18 January 2008, is located in Largo 18 de Janeiro 1934, in Casal Galego, Marinha Grande.
The House-Museum became a memory of the painful workers' struggles for a freer and fairer future, going beyond the material dimension of its simplicity to become a symbol of men's struggle and courage.
At the beginning of 1934, the fascist National Labor Statute came into force and free unions were officially prohibited, giving rise to corporate power.
The workers fight the fascization of the unions and call for a revolutionary general strike for January 18th with the aim of overthrowing Salazar's government.
In Marinha Grande, glass workers only took power for a few hours, as repression would crush the revolt.
In the rest of the country, similar actions were expected, but nowhere else was the gesture of the Marinense workers repeated.
The glass workers' revolt goes down in history as a high point in resistance to fascism and left seeds that germinated on an April morning precisely four decades later.
On January 18, 1934, in Marinha Grande, the objectives of the revolutionary general strike were achieved, the workers took power, surrounding the town, occupied the Post Office and the GNR post.
The historical importance of this house in the revolutionary movements of the working class at the beginning of the 20th century and the need to preserve the collective memory of the participation of the people of Marinense, the Councilor on August 17, 2004 issued an order to prepare a study to preserve the property and its historical context.
In 2007, an architectural solution was implemented to recreate the volume of the property, ensuring the preservation of its interior as an exhibition space about the events that began here, creating a MEMORIAL and documentary repository about the January 18th movement and the people who participated in the revolution and who were persecuted and arrested.
The original construction technique was based on resistant walls without structural frames with lime mortar and whitewashed in red on the outside and white on the inside.
The Workers' Revolt of January 18, 1934 represents a life lesson that will never lose its meaning no matter how many years and centuries pass.
In this place, the general strike called by the unions had a greater impact as the same did not happen in other cities in the country.
The House-Museum became a memory of the painful workers' struggles for a freer and fairer future, going beyond the material dimension of its simplicity to become a symbol of men's struggle and courage.
At the beginning of 1934, the fascist National Labor Statute came into force and free unions were officially prohibited, giving rise to corporate power.
The workers fight the fascization of the unions and call for a revolutionary general strike for January 18th with the aim of overthrowing Salazar's government.
In Marinha Grande, glass workers only took power for a few hours, as repression would crush the revolt.
In the rest of the country, similar actions were expected, but nowhere else was the gesture of the Marinense workers repeated.
The glass workers' revolt goes down in history as a high point in resistance to fascism and left seeds that germinated on an April morning precisely four decades later.
On January 18, 1934, in Marinha Grande, the objectives of the revolutionary general strike were achieved, the workers took power, surrounding the town, occupied the Post Office and the GNR post.
The historical importance of this house in the revolutionary movements of the working class at the beginning of the 20th century and the need to preserve the collective memory of the participation of the people of Marinense, the Councilor on August 17, 2004 issued an order to prepare a study to preserve the property and its historical context.
In 2007, an architectural solution was implemented to recreate the volume of the property, ensuring the preservation of its interior as an exhibition space about the events that began here, creating a MEMORIAL and documentary repository about the January 18th movement and the people who participated in the revolution and who were persecuted and arrested.
The original construction technique was based on resistant walls without structural frames with lime mortar and whitewashed in red on the outside and white on the inside.
The Workers' Revolt of January 18, 1934 represents a life lesson that will never lose its meaning no matter how many years and centuries pass.
In this place, the general strike called by the unions had a greater impact as the same did not happen in other cities in the country.
