The Prado Museum resumed last Saturday the ‘Prado de Noche’ cycle, which involves opening the doors of the country’s main ginacoteca on the first Saturday of each month from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., and what was sold in last season as a Success, now faces its first controversy. The reason is the diffusion of a series of videos in which Assistants Dancing and Drinking in the Muse Room At the rhythm of three radio clicks 3. Beyond some critical comments published by users of social networks, two conservative the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and eight sculptures of the second century. “This is not attracting youth to the museum.” A Prado spokesman, on the other hand, guarantees that these types of initiatives “do not pose a risk to the paintings.”
The museum explains that, since in March last year the museum began to open at night, they have always had this “collaboration” of Radio 3, which translates into the fact that several clicks of the station put music during the three hours opening. «That room is the one that is usually rented for sponsors and events. Concerts with the Real Theater have been organized, with the National Orchestra and a draw of the National Lottery. Radio programs have been made, with live music. It is a space that has that function, ”defends the meadow. In this case, with a bar in which cups of wine, beers and soft drinks are served. In the videos disseminated by the museum itself you can see attendees dancing with bottles next to some of the sculptures.
Does the Prado guarantee the safety of the works under these conditions? “The conservation of the works is guaranteed,” replies the museum. The areas are limited. People do not wander between sculptures and paintings are at a high height, above the heads of the attendees. It is not a bottle area, nor a place where people have abnormal behavior. There were visitors in the Prado rooms open normally, some of which decided to go through this area and others did not. No one goes to a party to Prado. It is a different way to organize a special event in collaboration with Radio 3, ”says the spokesman.
A visitor to ‘Prado de Noche’ of this last Saturday explains that in the different departures of the Muse Room there were security personnel controlling that no one left with the drinks. Within the room itself, where at times “many people accumulated”, there were also personnel watching that nothing strange happened. The volume of music, without being the disco’s own, was “high enough to be necessary to raise the voice to maintain a conversation.” According to the Prado, the level of vibrations caused by the speakers “does not imply a risk” for the works exhibited in that room: “It remains within the margins that allows proper conservation.” In the Muse Room there are two paintings of Rubens and another of Bourdon of the seventeenth century, and a quarter of Jean Ranc of the XIII. There are also eight sculptures of the year 130-150 (the muses, found around 1500 in the Villa Adriana de Tivoli and acquired by Queen Cristina de Sweden), another of the seventeenth century and a bronze of Julio López Hernández 1983.
According to the safety standards that the Prado Museum has published on its website, they cannot be introduced in the rooms and must be deposited in the slogan “Predicted foods and drinks, provided they are stored inside bags or backpacks.” In addition, among the general rules it is indicated that inside the museum it is not allowed to “eat or drink, except in the Prado café”, nor “take photographs or filming except in the lobby of Jerónimos, Muse Sala and Cloister of the Jeronimos ». The night visitors of the Prado, in addition to dancing with the muses, were able to visit two temporary exhibitions and the ground floor of the entire building, which offers a tour with works by authors such as El Bosco, Van Der Weyden, Sofonisba Anguissola, Fra Angelico, Patinir , Madrazo, Angelica Kauffmann, Aurelia Navarro, María Roësset, Fortuny and Goya.
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