The Community of Madrid intends to withdraw the nominative financing that the Prado Museumhe Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum of its budget project for 2025. The three centers received a total of 450,000 euros in direct aid from the Ayuso Government in 2024; 150,000 euros each. Next year, they will only be eligible for public subsidies through competitive competition, that is, through a contest – considerably lower. The accounts will go ahead without complicationsexpected before mid-December. The PP, which has an absolute majority in the Assembly, defines the budgets as “realistic, prudent and of a marked social nature.”
More Madrid does not rule out presenting amendments and denounces the cuts of the regional Executive in the area of Culture. “The Ministry has told them [a los museos perjudicados] that they will continue receiving financing through Tourism, but no item appears in the document; We don’t know how they are going to translate this into economic terms,” he acknowledges. Public Marisa Escalante, deputy of the formation. The funds allocated to Bullfighting Affairs Centermeanwhile, increase by 5.9% compared to 2024.
“He Meadowhe Thyssen and the Queen Sofia disappear from the list of subsidies with names and surnames, but other museums maintain the items for next year,” warn the party of Manuela Bergerot. He budget project emphasizes that the Community of Madrid “will continue to support large museums as tourist icons” in the region, but It does not define how or with what amounts. Sector sources consulted by this newspaper consider that the cuts are “serious” and “restrictive for the structure of art.” The Ministry of Culture has not responded to calls Public before the publication of this news.
According to the opposition, everything responds to the regional government’s plan to move towards a model of subsidies and agreementsmanaging the distribution of funds based on specific projects –without nominative allocations–. This is the same argument as the Ayuso Government used last year to leave the Ateneo de Madrid without direct financing. Esperanza Aguirre contributed up to 350,000 euros to the cultural center; Ignacio González, 270,000; and Cristina Cifuentes, 150,000. The current regional president reduced this amount two years ago and eliminated it completely in 2024. The trend will likely be repeated again in 2025.
“This transition they talk about [en el modelo de subvenciones] It is planned for 2026, but, curiously, the have started with museums and entities that depend on or have some connection with the Ministry of Culture. These centers are left out of the games for 2025″, insist from Más Madrid. The Picasso Museum in Buitrago de Lozoya, the Ethnographic Museum in Horcajuelo de la Sierra and the Ulpiano Checa Museum in Colmenar de la Oreja, all municipalities governed by the PPthey continue in the list of current expenses on cultural goods and services for 2025. The same occurs with the Association of Fashion Creators of Spain and the Contemporary Foundation, among others.
More budget for the bulls
Next year’s regional budget grows by 1,104 million euros, despite the cut in the museum network. The most benefited areas are Health, Education and Housing, Transport and Infrastructure. He Bullfighting Affairs Center of the Community of MadridHowever, its financing will also be expanded. The organization, in charge of the “promotion and dissemination of the bullfighting festival” throughout the region, has reserved almost 4.5 million of euros of the funds of the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Interior. This represents an increase of 5.9% compared to 2024. The bullfighter Miguel Abellanappointed by the Ayuso Government itself, runs this center with a salary of 75,000 euros per year.
The item also includes a subsidy of 1.7 million euros for the Fighting Bull Foundation –300,000 euros more than during the last year. Ayuso announced last May that he would create a Bullfighting Award own hand in hand with this association, after the decision of the Ministry of Culture, led by Ernest Urtasun, to eliminate the national award. More Madrid recalls, again, that the disappearance of direct aid to all museums linked to the Ministry “it doesn’t seem casual“. Public has contacted the affected institutions, which have preferred not to make statements “for the moment.”
The accounts do not appear in Culture
The museums and exhibitions section of the regional accounts had always included nominative items for the Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofía. If nothing changes, the three centers will start the year with zero budgets and will depend, in any case, on possible competitions to obtain competitive subsidies. They will, without knowing the fine print, like “tourist icons“, a definition that the opposition calls an “error” because it considers that it underestimates its “cultural value.” The Ministry has tried to put out the fire by transmitting – to the museums – that will continue to receive financial supportbut the figures do not appear on paper, which rather reflects the budgetary attenuation: Culture will go from having an allocation of 321.7 million to managing only 302.6 in 2025.
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