Museums Dead

Quite a few museums are more dead than tenants in many cemeteries. For example, the New Orleans-the cemetery, I say get infinitely more tourists than our sad Museum of Commerce. And say nothing of the Buenos Aires district of La Recoleta, there, in front of the niche crowd Evita Peron visitors always willing to take a photo as a souvenir.

This reminded me to the closure of the Museum of Oriental Art. In it I was watching at the time the sample on Chinese art, from the Neolithic to the Ming Dynasty, entranced before some treasures that were probably false election promises Rodriguez Zapatero.

The closure, however, should not be the growing doubt about the authenticity of the funds, but to expensive maintenance -1.3 million in just three and a half years and the shortage of visitors. What do you believe, then, our communes, which go to museums more people than rock concerts?

Even the famous MoMA in New York is a haven of peace and tranquility to both the bustle of this metropolis. I have a friend who at the halfway realized that the guy who was looking at pictures at his side, with a child by the hand, it was Harrison Ford, who was there in the shelter of the fans and even my friend , which did not dare say anything in the middle of the imposing silence of the museum.

For this limited influx of personnel, there are always fewer museums bars, for example. Nevertheless, our council has tried to make Salamanca a city with museums visitors. And that still lack the Architectural and Historical Memory. It has, moreover, without any criteria, say more by accumulation than by selection and, of course, and wrecked attempts as interesting as the history of the City or the Automotive, to name two instances deficit that the City has not known address.

How soon, therefore, the discrimination between good and better, between the desirable and possible? This is the fifth article I write on the subject of museums, and I fear that, go on, unfortunately not the last to do.