The Minister of Culture and Sports, Patricia Del Poo, denounced that The Ministry of Culture «Margina nuevamente en los museos andaluza», including those of state property located in the autonomous community. «It is incomprehensible that none of the more than 250 acquisitions for 14,624,510 euros made in 2024 enrich the funds of the museum centers in Andalusia,» she said.
Patricia del Pozo expressed surprise at «this dissatisfaction for museums in Andalusia, especially when, among the 35 public institutions that benefited from the ministry’s acquisitions, there are eight museums and a state archive: Regional Management: Those in Albacete, Ávila, Burgos, Guadalajara, Palencia, Santa Cruz de Toledo, and Zamora, as well as the fine arts in Valencia and the archive in Orense.
The head of culture and sports also highlighted the «paradox» that among the acquisitions made by the Ministry of Culture throughout 2024, the works of Andalusian artists or closely related to Andalusia are relevant for Andalusia, Such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Pedro by campaign, or Luisa Roldán ‘a Roldana’.
The Minister of Culture and Sports of the Junta de Andalucía, Patricia del Poo.
Del Pozo recalled that «what happened in 2023 is repeated again when the department led by Ernest Urtasun allocated 13,965,142.87 euros in the purchase of cultural assets for public collections, But none of the more than 200 purchase transactions ended up in the funds of Andalusian museums, which are once again ignored.
«The dissatisfaction of 2023 is repeated again. In just the last two years, The Ministry of Culture has made over 450 acquisitions for almost 29 million euros and none of them ended up in the collections of museum centers in Andalusia,» she said.
In the same issue, The adviser denounced the absence of Andalusian experts in the historical assets of heritage, the Evaluation and Export Council, the body of the Ministry of Culture responsible for the acquisition of cultural assets by the state to be part of the collections of public museums, archives, and libraries.