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Set in two converted warehouse buildings at the 8 Marvila cultural complex on Praca David Leandro da Silva in the eastern Marvila district of Lisbon, the Ah Amalia Living Experience is a substantial immersive biographical exhibition dedicated to the life and music of the Portuguese fado singer Amalia Rodrigues. The exhibition was developed by SP Entertainment in collaboration with the Amalia Rodrigues Foundation and opened in late 2022 as one of the principal new cultural attractions of the wider Marvila district. Amalia Rodrigues was the most internationally famous Portuguese popular singer of the twentieth century and the principal performer of the traditional Portuguese fado musical tradition. Born in Lisbon on 1 July 1920, Rodrigues began performing professionally in the various small fado venues of the historic Alfama and Mouraria districts of central Lisbon during the late 1930s and progressively rose to become the principal international ambassador of the Portuguese musical tradition through the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition covers approximately seven hundred square metres across two converted warehouse buildings of the former Abel Pereira da Fonseca warehouse complex. The principal exhibition is divided into eight individual thematic rooms, each covering a different aspect of the wider life and work of Amalia Rodrigues. The various individual rooms cover the principal Lisbon childhood, the early performing career in the central fado venues, the international tours through the 1950s and 1960s, the various film and theatrical performances, the personal life and the wider cultural legacy. The principal individual technological highlights include a substantial virtual reality experience where visitors can be present at one of the classical 1960s Amalia Rodrigues recording sessions, a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree projection room with continuous video mapping presentations of the various major Amalia Rodrigues performances and a full-scale interactive hologram of Amalia Rodrigues herself performing one of her signature songs. The hologram is one of the most heavily photographed individual elements of the wider exhibition. The supplementary photographic and physical installations include an infinite mirror room covered with thousands of small lights creating the illusion of an endless three-dimensional space, a chronological timeline panel covering all the major moments of the artist life, and a substantial display of original personal items, costumes, manuscripts and recording equipment drawn from the wider collection of the Amalia Rodrigues Foundation. The exhibition is reached most easily by train to the nearby Braco de Prata station or by bus to the Poco Bispo stop and is open every day apart from major Portuguese public holidays.