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The pieces, mostly unexposed buildings are preserved in La Glorieta, the City Museum and others in public.

Citizens can enjoy the wonderful heritage of the Consistory through a constantly updated website.

A new service will allow users to receive alerts of any changes occurring in the work and its location.

How many art treasures the city of Murcia-Where they are located and what their condition-seen-How Can These are some of the questions that the latest initiative of the Consistory gives a full answer.

Because for the first time in the history of the city, admire the formidable Murcia municipal property without leaving their homes.

The collection, for centuries, been enriching public property, and is accessible through a web page, a website that features photos of each piece, year of birth, current location and a brief description materials thereon, the context historic and author.

Thus, establishing a central registry that brings together all available information on councils and services on paintings, sculptures and art objects.

In this first phase of the project has cataloged more than 200 works from 125 authors, painters, sculptors, writers, architects and restorers.

For now, the website is in beta, but is made public for Murcia can access it and provide suggestions and ideas to improve service.

The main features of the page include:

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While in beta, already cataloged more than 200 works by 125 different authors.

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Includes a search engine to locate works by title, author name and location.

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Users can be alerted of any changes occurring in the work and its location.

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Each piece features a photograph, a detailed description of the work and the author, year of creation and the material used and its exact location.

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The page shows, in real time, the various municipal projects for the enhancement of historical heritage.

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It also includes comments from various authorities on municipal collection.

Heritage Defense

This project is one of the novelties of the new MurciaEscultura plan, which the City proposes a continuation of the successful plan that Murcia was an initiative that has recovered more than twenty historical pieces in the past three years.

In developing the initiative has helped the City Museum and the Integra.

This project has enabled the creation of hundreds of files that make up the Future Catalog of Personal Property of the City of Murcia, a document that will serve as permanent renewal and to develop future conservation and dissemination of the splendid collection amassed by the Consistory.

This new catalog allows updating municipal funds and determine the place of each piece today and boost conservation practice works and updated track of new additions to occur.

Among the works that are being cataloged is the large collection of contemporary paintings, largely made up of authors Murcia, sculpture, monumental sculpture and other pieces, such as those for the local outfit and those that have been recovered in recent years by the Murcia program that was.

Access for all

The catalog and inventory of local heritage is not an internal working document.

By contrast, all Murcia may access it through a novel site.

The Murcia may participate in the project by sending suggestions and concerns throughout the process of creating the inventory and the possibility that there will continue to do so later, as the initiative will be updated permanently.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia