Luís Sebastian
Luís Sebastian was born in Lisbon in 1973. He has a Bachelor in History and Archeology (1996) by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, Postgraduate (2007) and PhD (2011) in History and Archeology by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon. As a technician of the Portuguese Institute of Architectural Heritage (IPPAR - Ministry of Culture), he was scientific coordinator of the archaeological intervention in the São João de Tarouca Monastery between 1998 and 2007. As a technician of the Regional Department of Culture of the North of the Ministry of Culture (DRCN), he coordinated the tourist-heritage project "Vale do Varosa", between 2009 and 2018, and was Director of the Lamego Museum, between 2012 and 2018. Between 2018 and 2023, he was advisor to the Board and editor of the editorial collection “Património a Norte” and responsible for the online sites arquiv@ - arquivo online da Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte (https://arquiva.culturanorte.gov.pt) and bibliotec@ - bibliotecas online da Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte (https://biblioteca.culturanorte.gov.pt).
Having participated in more than 40 scientific meetings as a lecturer and coordinator, he is the author and editor of more than 30 publications and more than 40 scientific papers in the areas of History, Archaeology, Patrimonial Rehabilitation, Cultural Management and Museology, with special focus on portuguese earthenware, monastic Order of Cister, monastic architecture, archaeometallurgy and scientific illustration, in the Medieval and Modern periods.
He was distinguished with 17 national prizes in the area of museology, museography, communication, tourist information, conservation and restoration, editing, fundraising and research by institutions such as the Portuguese Association of Museology, Federation of Friends of the Museums of Portugal and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the international Prize AR&PA in 2016, for the tourist-heritage project "Vale do Varosa".
