The University of Murcia yesterday inaugurated the exhibition "The Pedagogical Missions in Spain (1931-1936)", which will run until February 13 at the Museum of this institution, in the old Artillery Barracks, which is the first event organized in the centenary year.
The sample consists of photographs, with windows of library materials and instruments of the time also, that reflect the activities that were made in the Educational Missions, a project developed in Spain during the years of the Second Republic to bring the different dimensions of culture (libraries, museums, cinema, theater, music, painting, etc.) to rural areas.
The opening led to the conference curator, Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela Eugenio Otero, who stressed Mission revolution which accounted for farmers' some first met not only the film but the electricity "- and were the largest campaign to encourage reading that had never been done in the country, to distribute more than 5,500 libraries in rural Spain at the time.
Today, Tuesday, at 19:00 pm in the auditorium of the Museo Ramón Gaya conference Manuel Fernández Delgado, who will give the presentation "A coffee with Gaya and Goya. The Village Museum" is planned.
The cycle of scheduled activities, including lectures, plays, concerts and lectures will take place during the months of January and February in the municipalities of Murcia, Cartagena, Molina de Segura and Cieza.
This conference is organized by the University of Murcia in collaboration with the Association of Pensioners Inter and sponsorship of Cajamurcia Foundation.
Source: Universidad de Murcia. Fotos: Luis Urbina