:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder. So we have a Museum for the Holy Week Brotherhoods, for cars, for wine, for glass, and even for dolls.
Another museum opened today, Wednesday, in the old Tabacalera tobacco factory, the Art Natura Gems Museum, but those who have visited today will have found only an empty space; there is no exhibition.
Royal Collections is the name of the company which owns the gems, has opened the museum on the penultimate day of a 120 day ultimatum from the City Hall. Royal Collections say the City Hall should have handed over a building to them in 2008, and when in March 2011 nothing had been achieved they called on the City Hall to cancel the contract. However that request was denied by the judiciary.
So today we see empty display cases, escalators and a lift which don’t work, and a lack of security doors and cameras needed for the currently non-existent gems. Visits are currently free, and if you go you will be given a tour of all the deficiencies, said Fulgencio Alcaraz from Royal Collections. He claims that the works for the museum have seen a budget overrun of 17 million €, taking the total cost to 40 million €.
The Mayor’s latest idea meanwhile is to create ‘A museum of museums’ to be located in the old Astoria Cinema, but that remains some way off.
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