The future Miquel Navarro Museum in Mislata is beginning to take shape. The Museum Plan commissioned by the Miquel Navarro Foundation (MNF) and whose drafting has been completed this month, constitutes a roadmap that will allow the development of the project, guaranteeing its viability and social projection.
The document was drawn up jointly by the doctor in Art History David Gimilo Sanz and the Cultural Heritage technician and museographer Jaume Penalba Alarcón, who have approached the work as a preliminary study in which relevant aspects for the effective implementation of such a significant cultural project in the Valencian Community are dealt with in detail, taking into account the international recognition and projection of Miquel Navarro.
In this sense, the Museological Plan analyses, among other factors, the location and cultural context, the definition of the collections and their typology, the criteria for their conservation and restoration, the conditions of assembly, the management of visits, the menu of services, the programme of activities, human resources, the organisation of security and communication and dissemination.
The aim is to create a museum that not only exhibits and disseminates the work of Miquel Navarro, but also periodically includes temporary exhibitions by other artists and organises events aimed at promoting art from an educational perspective.
In the words of the authors of the study, “this will create a living museum, and not merely a passive container that could lead to a loss of interest on the part of the potential public”.
Prior to the drafting of the Museum Plan, the Miquel Navarro Foundation carried out an exhaustive work of cataloguing the museum’s collection, whose fitting-out work is expected to begin during the first half of next year.
