EXHIBITION
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Hidden Treasures of the XCHR
CURATORS
Vivek Menezes
Délio Mendonça
OPENING
Saturday, 7 February 2026 | 5:30 pm
Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim
Please join us for the Opening of the XCHR Museum with an Exhibition, There will be An Answer. Hidden Treasures of the XCHR, curated by Vivek Menezes and Délio Mendonça, on Saturday,
7 February 2026 at 6 pm at the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim.
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Hidden Treasures of the XCHR
Almost 50 years after the Xavier Centre of Historical Research was founded in 1977, this pioneering research institute has somewhat unexpectedly also become an invaluable community cultural archive. Our library has always been widely acknowledged for its unique
treasures, but we now also bear the responsibility to look after, celebrate, study and share an extraordinary artistic legacy from the brilliant modernist Angelo da Fonseca and the polymathic genius Jose Pereira to centuries-old sculptures, carvings and paintings
that have been rescued and bestowed here over the years.
Many of the works in this first-ever exploration of the entire XCHR artistic archives have never been seen in public. Several were framed for the very first time. There are hundreds more that need similarly urgent care, and we need your support to make it happen.
Please help us to safeguard this irreplaceable cultural heritage.
Vivek Menezes
Vivek Menezes is a widely published writer, photographer and independent curator, the co-founder and co-curator of the Goa Arts + Literature Festival, founding editor of The Peacock daily newspaper at the International Film Festival of India, columnist for
Mumbai Mirror and O Heraldo, and a frequent contributor to other leading periodicals. He was born in Bombay, attended high school in New York, and holds degrees from Wesleyan University and the London School of Economics.
Délio Mendonça
Délio Mendonça was born in Beira, Mozambique, and after completing his schooling in Portuguese in Mozambique, moved to his ancestral Goa in 1977. He has Master’s degrees in History, Portuguese Literature and Culture (Goa), Church History (Rome) and a PhD in
History (Pune). He has also taught Portuguese Literature and Culture at the Goa University. He is the author of the seminal work
Conversions and Citizenry: Goa under Portugal, 1510–1610 (2002) and Fonseca (2022). Délio has previously served as the Director of Xavier Centre of Historical Research (XCHR) in Goa, and until recently, was the Dean and Professor at the Faculty
of History and Cultural Heritage of the Church at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He is currently is Assistant Director and Program Coordinator for the Arts at the XCHR.
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