The Department of Museums has announced the opening of the submission period for private collections for exhibition at the Siyâsa Museum, with the goal set by the head of this municipal department, Pilar Martínez, of transforming this facility into an inclusive and familiar space for knowledge, leisure, and culture for all Ciezans.
For Martínez, "it's necessary to remember that museums are there for everyone. Even when they were created during the Enlightenment, they did so to fulfill a universal utopia: to make knowledge and the enjoyment that learning and culture provide accessible to a society of free men and women."
Expanding on this, "museums were seen as a tool to combat inequality and ignorance, a space for individual affirmation, the exercise of the right to contemplate and 'possess' the nation's heritage, a form of earthly happiness."
For this reason, the Department of Museums has already prepared a special space, on level 0 of the Siyâsa, to display private collections of any resident interested in exhibiting them, whether art, bibliography, philatelic, crafts, or any item of special interest for public dissemination.
To this end, interested parties must submit an application to the museum itself, or through the Registry, addressed to the Museums Department, detailing a brief summary of the collection to be exhibited. The deadline is February 15th. Among the applications, those that are particularly interesting and optimal for the intended purpose will be selected and will be displayed in various temporary exhibitions throughout 2018.
"This effort is part of the program to attract and strengthen underrepresented audiences, with the goal of expanding museum visits as a leisure activity, as well as attracting and retaining audiences from the surrounding area of our municipality," the municipal official concludes.
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