this Prado National Museum Presented the ‘Prado Extended’ program for reorganize your funds into loans -they understand 3,448 works deposited in institutions from different regions of Spain– and give visibility to an action already initiated with little success.
“We knew this”mini meadows‘ Due to the long-standing discussions and the lack of knowledge of the current situation of some heads of institutions, branch requests are also not acceptable. What we want is If there are already artifacts from the Prado throughout Spain, let it be known“, pointed out museum director Miguel Falomir during the presentation.
Generally, Outside of its historic center in the Villanueva building or Casón del Buen Retiro, the Prado Museum has more than 3,400 artifacts., a fact that the museum thinks is “not well known”. Throughout the institution’s more than 200-year history, deposits have been formalized, but they have responded to more conditional criteria than museographic, artistic, scientific, educational, or technical.
Now, the museum has decided to take back this situation. creation of a mandatory label – ‘Museo Nacional del Prado Extended’ – for works entrusted. Also, some works that do not fit in some places are moved to places necessary for the authors and travel to others, especially for geographical reasons.
“This is a collaboration with the rest of the museums, nothing will be done unilaterally.Emphasizing the importance of asking museums before sending the artifacts, Falomir explained, “It’s not about acting like a policeman and checking in, but it’s clear you don’t do that if you send an artifact abroad.
‘undress the saints’
The program has already taken its first steps and started with pilot projects such as: Oviedo Museum of Fine Arts -which has received ten works from Prado in the last year and a half, and five are on the way- or Fine Art Gravina from AlicanteHaving received 28 punctures from teachers from Alicante last year.
“It’s not a quality issue, it’s a matter of interest: What is not interesting in one place may be of great interest in anotherPrado’s director drew attention after confirming that this project would require the relocation of thousands of parts distributed across Spain. In any case, he explained that Prado will not have “subsites”. , but it will be a “supplement” of several state museums.
It was also announced that none of the works hanging in the museum – currently around 1,600 – will not go to other Spanish art galleries. “No saint will undress, some works may come out of the warehouses, but an artifact that we think can be exhibited in the coming years, decades will never emerge. Mobility is for works found where they are not on display.“, he stressed, acknowledging that it was a project with “no end date”.
Iceta: “Condensation of the museum”
Culture and Sports Minister Miquel Iceta congratulated Prado, “Optimization of an incalculable wealth“and to “encourage” other national museums to emulate this initiative. “The ministry does not order, we respect the autonomy of museums, but a national museum belongs to the whole nation, and there is no single zip code,” he said.
He also reminded that in the procurement policy of the Ministry, there are funds allocated for studies for autonomous communities. “I talked about cultural federalism once, and it would be better to talk about deconcentration, or the real profession of national museums: this project puts into practice everything we want,” he said.
Source: Informacion
