Many museums are more dead than tenants of many cemeteries. For example, the New Orleans cemetery, say infinitely receives more tourists than our sad trade Museum. Not to mention nothing of the bonaerense La Recoleta; There, against the niche of Evita Peron are always crowded visitors willing to take a photo as a souvenir. This comes to mind before the closure of the Museum of Oriental art. The watched in his day the exhibition on Chinese art of the Neolithic dynasty Ming, ecstatic before a few treasures that were probably more false than the electoral promises of Rodriguez Zapatero. Its closure, however, is not the growing doubt about the authenticity of the funds, but to expensive maintenance 1.3 million in only three and a half years and the shortage of visitors. What is believed, then, our residents, who comes more people than to rock concerts to museums? Until the famous MOMA in New York is a haven of peace and serenity before so much hustle and bustle of that metropolis.
I have a friend who halfway through its journey realized that the guy who was looking boxes at his side, with a child’s hand, was Harrison Ford, who was there to wrap the fans and even my friend, which dared not tell nothing amid the stunning silence of the pinacoteca. For this limited influx of personnel, always there less museums than bars, for example. Despite this, our consistory has tried to make a city of Salamanca with more museums than visitors. And that there are still those of architecture and historical memory. It has done so, moreover, without any criteria, say that more by accumulation than by selection and clear, thus shipwrecked attempts as interesting as the history of the city or the automotive, to put two deficient cases that the City Council has failed to address. When, therefore, the discrimination between good and best, between what is desirable and possible? This is already the fifth article that I write about this matter of the museums and I am afraid that follow as well, Unfortunately it won’t be the last that does.