The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasunit has no inconvenience that the Prado Museum organizes in the room of the Muse Fiestas in which music is played and drinks are served. «The current Prado team has all the support … of the Minister for the activities he performs, ”said the Also spokesman to add on Monday, in reference to the controversy raised by the dissemination of a series of videos on Saturday 1 in which dozens of attendees are seen – not so Young – Dancing and drinking beers and wine glasses at the rhythm of several radio clicks 3 in a room in which four paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are exhibited and eight sculptures of the second century.
The minister made these statements during the press conference in which he presented his plans to reform the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). Urtasun takes for granted the explanations offered by the Prado Museum, which maintains to organize these evenings on the first Saturdays of each month, within the frame at risk of heritage. The Pinacoteca argues that all kinds of events are celebrated in that room and there is no risk that the works deteriorate neither due to the vibration caused by the speakers nor for the risk of someone spilling a cup.
Since in March of last year the meadow began to open at night, the museum has always had the collaboration of Radio 3 to entertain visits, something that translates into that several clicks of the station put music during the three hours Opening in the Muse Sala, and only there. That room is the one that is usually rented for sponsors and events. «Concerts with the Real Theater, with the National Orchestra and a draw of the National Lottery have been organized. Radio programs have been made, with live music. It is a space that has that function, ”defends the meadow. A bar is enabled where wine, beers and soft drinks are served. In controversial videos you can see attendees dancing with bottles next to some of the sculptures.
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 (Las Musas, found around 1500 in the Villa Adriana de Tívoli and acquired by Queen Cristina de Sweden), another of the seventeenth century and a bronze of Julio López Hernández of 1983. According to the rules of Security that the Prado Museum has published on its website, cannot be introduced into 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 ».
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