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El Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia (Mubam) will have a new building to expand its surface at 555 square feet after the expansion work to begin within a maximum period of two weeks, and to be carried out with the intention " become one of the major art museums of Spain, "said the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, in the presentation of the project.
Cruz has been joined at the press conference by the Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, the architect for the project, Juan de Dios de la Hoz, and the new director of Mubam, Juan Garcia Sandoval.
The renovation will involve a transformation of "deep draft" in order to adapt to the new downtown museum policy of the Department and that has to do, in the words of Cruz, "changes in the schedule that will experience the Mubam in next year, and will vary throughout the exhibition policy to make way for major productions and exhibitions, as we did with contemporary art exhibitions of the Department of Visual Arts. "
In this way, "the Murcia and contemporary art lovers will have at its disposal an important exhibition program and the level of the best art museums in Spain."
Likewise, Cruz advanced in his speech that the new work opens with "a series of major exhibitions that mark a before and after in the history of this museum."
The expansion, which is located between the street and square Cigarral Joaquin Báguena will increase the museum's exhibition space with two new exhibition halls capable of hosting large-format, also includes an assembly hall on the ground floor and improve and expand the rest of facilities such as toilets, lifts, hallways, stairs facilities.
In addition, the library will be reformed with the aim of becoming "a documentation center specialized in museology, which aims to turn the main space Mubam Spanish territory intended for research of this discipline," said Cruz.
The project, which includes restoring the old building covers Contrast Silk has also taken into account the historical aspects that may affect the works while the new building is designed in such a place, most probably , is part of the medieval walls of the city of Murcia.
Those remains subject to conservation will be incorporated into the new building after the necessary excavation and maintenance and integration of these remains.
For its part, the new director of the Museo de Bellas Artes de Murcia, Juan Garcia Sandoval, said that "museums are not only what is seen, but have an important role in dissemination and, above all, research and open space for researchers and society "so that these works" will mean a major change in this regard. "
Juan de Dios de la Hoz is Professor of Heritage Restoration Master of the University of Valladolid and Alcalá de Henares, Restoration professor Camilo José Cela University in Madrid and author of numerous literature focused on the field of conservation and restoration heritage.
The works have a deadline of seven to nine months and a cost of 1,063,961 euros.
Juan Garcia Sandoval
Born in 1968 Mula.
BA in Art History from the University of Murcia, Master of Museology course Teaching at the University of Barcelona, specializes in conservation and restoration of archaeological materials.
Cultural Management graduate of the University from 1989 to 2001.
He has worked as a manager in a management company, museum, heritage conservation and promotion of the Region of Murcia 2002-2007, connected to the city of Lorca as director of training and employment program dedicated to local development through recovery Heritage Cultural de Lorca.
He has participated as co musealization archaeological projects, spoke with papers to various conferences, workshops and national and international seminars dealing with aspects of tourism and heritage presentation.
He has authored more than thirty articles dealing with the problems of art conservation and restoration interventions in archaeological sites or on Roman mosaics and wall paintings.
Also very active in the coordination and management of theoretical / practical conservation, restoration and documentation of cultural property of the University of Mar and advice as well as collaborations in various designs for exhibitions and museums for different public and private institutions.
Photo (left to right): The architect in charge of the works, Juan de Dios de la Hoz, the Director of Fine Arts, Enrique Ujaldón, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and director of Mubam Juan Garcia Sandoval.
Source: CARM
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