The Consell del Museu Nacional de Catalunya (MNAC), where the government, the Generalitat, and the local council of Barcelona are located, met on Monday following the ruling on the Sijena mural paintings.
MNAC director Pepe Serra stated that on the same day the verdict was known, May 28, he will request an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Directors to "address the issue, make the appropriate decisions, and determine the steps to be taken."
This week, Minister of Education, Culture, and Sports Araagosès, Tomasa Hernández, sent two letters to the President of the Board of Directors of MNAC, Joan Oliveras, and to the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, urging the expedited transfer of the murals.
Last week, the Parliament approved a declaration promoted by PSC-Units, Junts, ERC, Common, and Cup, expressing their support for MNAC in light of the Supreme Court’s decision and calling on the government to exhaust all available resources to keep them in the museum.
Préstecs "Punt"
Following the statement, MNAC warned about the fragility of the paintings and their sensitivity to environmental changes, emphasizing that physical studies have shown they "do not tolerate vibrations."
The museum assured that since its installation in Montjuic in 1961, the entire paintings have not left the museum entirely, adding that they have made "occasional" loans of small fragments for exhibitions, but have not loaned any parts since 1997.
On the other hand, nine former cultural consultants of the Generalitat presented a manifesto advocating for the maintenance of the murals at MNAC and emphasizing that they "cannot be transferred without suffering irreparable damage."