Now that the Memorial Museum has announced its appeal: Resistance.
Closed from March of last year, when the Covid-19 pandemic struck with fire in the country, the mayor retorted that he had already paid attention to the subsistence of the Mayor of the museums around the world.
It is estimated that 13% of world-scale museums will not be able to recover from the devastation caused by the sanitary and economic crisis caused by the new coronavirus.
The panorama points to the disappointment that the Museo de Louvre, located in Paris, France, is one of the most famous and visited on the planet, in the year 2020 the 70% of its visitors and its entrances will reach around 90 million euros in comparison with 2019.
A report by the AFP agency reviewed last week that state museums could now sell their artwork to compensate for their losses caused by the lethal pandemic.
In April 2020, the Association of Art Museums Directors (AAMD, by its flags in English) issued this prohibition and authorization for the sale of art works to balance the presupposed.
In September, the Brooklyn Museum, in the face of economic pandemic difficulties, went on sale 12 hours with the aim of creating a fundraising fund for its collection.
The director of the Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance (MMRD), Luisa de Peña Díaz, recognizes that the entity has been badly affected by the preventive measures applied to avoid contact with the virus.
The maintenance of the installation and payment of the employees has been significantly affected. “Employees have resisted because they are compromised with the institution, they are very close, and they have reconstructed it”, added about the large cases in which he stole the operation of the museum.
Duration tests
Peña Díaz is aware of the lack of months of proof for the MMRD and the other museums in the country, which could not have a repertoire of minions persisting through the escalation of contests by the Covid-19.
This is an unmistakable reality at the moment, with its initial cases and some suspended services, the museographer derrocha optimism about the future of the creation has created years to recover, organize, preserve and showcase the assets of the estate the resistance during the dictatorships in the Dominican Republic, especially the one captured by Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1930-1961) for 30 years.
“For the sake of all, our brothers and sisters are grateful for one more time in support of the community, friends and donations we receive,” said the director of the MMRD.
It recalls that in its initiatives also a titanic loop will be created to make the project a reality. Refers to the remnants of Trujillo’s dictatorship and some of the people who survived the regime of Joaquín Balaguer’s Doce Anos (1966-1978), opposed the operation of a museum with their characteristics.
“We want to keep quiet for many times, our sectors that participate in the crimes of the State and violations of human rights”, said the specialist in management, economics and finance of culture.
Peña Díaz confides in the preservation of the museum because he has more than ten justices of justice to conquer the world and to claim his right to historical memory.
“We do not have the slightest doubt that we will be able to sovereign, golpeados, even all the museums, and we will cost the levers to deliver, but we will be able to repair our gates, and the students will be on the museum, because we have left a vacancy”, indicates .
From vuelta to its origins
The MMRD currently operates in a virtual way, which the expert in collections considers a world to have its origins, as it is a surgeon of this museum, located in the archbishopric Nouel de la Ciudad Colonial.
Recognize that the virtual does not support the presence, but he developed a series of programs and activities through social media and his web page, with a very positive response from the public.
It is intended to provide educational, conversational, podcasting, contest, and trivia topics in addition to the “One Day Like Many Years” program, designed to record activities conducted during the first ten years of MMRD operations.
“The people are super enthusiastic, because even though the virtual does not support the presence, it has the most knowledge and is more important to the people. Hemos multiplied our drive to virtual work ”, explained the museologist.
Although in quarantine, it is expected to be celebrated in May in close proximity to the museum’s ten years and the 60th anniversary of the tyrant Trujillo’s adjustment.
For the anniversary open exhibitions in large part of the country. “Resistance is in full swing”, exclaims De Peña Díaz, clarifies that he has 10 years well-read to establish a museum with a collection was declared on July 31, 2009 “Memoria del mundo” by the Organization of the United Nations for the Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO).