The idea of creating Flamenco Museum at the Pabellón de la Madrinaaround the San Telmo gardens, represents another network in the dense network of specialized centers planned in the Seville capital. In addition … of the exhibition on this theme (no museographic plan has yet been produced), the old newspaper archives, among other uses, will host the Flamenco Biennale. In any case, this proposal from the government of José Luis Sanz is only in its infancy. Nothing to do with nearly a dozen interpretation centers, cultural centers and museums dedicated to very specific disciplines. In addition, these uses occur for the most part after a process of restoration of heritage assets hitherto forgotten in the city.
This is the case of San Hermenegildo, a 16th century gem closed for two decades. The Focus Foundation will allow the old church to “Diego Velázquez Research Center” in the “San Hermenegildo Room” with the collection which had been exhibited in Los Venerables after the transfer by the Town Hall once the restoration work on the roof and facades was completed last July. The project, prepared by the architects Antonio Herrero Elordi and José Rodríguez Lucena, with the collaboration of the museographer Juan Suárez Ávila, and whose budget well exceeds 600,000 euros, has authorizations from the Provincial Heritage Commission and the Urban Planning Directorate. The plan includes a concert space in the oval church and a room for the large pictorial exhibition with paintings by Velázquez, Murillo, El Greco, Zurbarán and Herrera the Elder.
Two months ago, the Archdiocese of Seville formalized the transfer of Venerables at the Cathedral for its museum. Thus, the hospital founded three and a half centuries ago by Justin de Névé to accommodate elderly and powerless priests, will be adapted to permanently expose part of the artistic heritage of the Cathedral which for the moment remains hidden. That same year, the Château Saint-Georgeswhich is also an interpretation center for the Inquisition, has reopened as an exhibition center for the Inquisition. sacred art.
In the new budgets, allocations of 75,000 euros have also been agreed for each of the future museums of the History of Seville and Holy Weeklong-term aspirations, with ongoing discussions but which have not yet materialized in a specific location.
Other proposals linked to the city’s own history are very advanced. In the Atarazanas, also recovered after three decades, the Cajasol Foundation will create in collaboration with institutions such as the Hispanic Society, the Frida Khalo Museum in Mexico and the Botero Museum in Colombia, the Museum of Ibero-American Art in Seville, within the framework of an ambitious museographic project a few months from its discovery and which, in general, is dedicated to the history of America.
The city walls and gates, witnesses to the very evolution of Seville’s history, will also be the subject of other spaces. This is the case of the Torre de la Plata, which will house the Interpretation Center of the fortified walls of Seville (Ciras) or the Postigo Archwhich was acquired a few months ago by the Casa Ducal de Medinaceli Foundation, which chairs the Duke of Segorbe to enable a similar virtual museum.
There are only a few months left before the opening of number 6 of Acetres, which will become the Luis Cernuda House Museum and study center for the Generation of 27. At a key moment in the centenary celebration, this spring you will be able to enjoy a good part of the poet’s archives and his relationships with other members of the Silver Age of Spanish literature.
With delay, but with a firm step, the work of Room Zero of the University Museum which aims to highlight the historical, artistic and scientific heritage of the institution. The Rectorate will be the headquarters of this room of a project in which Santa Clara has been envisaged.
In addition, a warehouse in the former Artillery Factory will be the permanent headquarters (at least for the 75 years that the concession to the Athénée lasts) of the company. Parade of the Three Kings. San Laureano, for its part, will be transferred to the FIDAS Foundation as a multipurpose room.
And 2026 must be the year the project goes out to tender. expansion of the Seville Museum of Fine Arts through the Monsalves Palace and the library on Calle Alfonso XII, once the Ministry of Culture has committed to the Government of Andalusia to carry out the project.
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