Voces del Prado

A small team

Carmen Garrido Pérez, Head of the Technical Office, 1982-2012

In those early days we were few, plus Professor Cabrera whenever he dropped by, because he was doing well at the Restoration Institute. He helped us out a lot at the beginning, but he eventually faded away. Then someone else came from the Institute, María José Alonso, but she was only with us for a year, and myself. Subsequently, Inmaculada Echeverría came along, and she remains at the Prado Museum. She was my right hand, my left hand, she was just everything. There was someone else who came from the Institute, two people with grants who belonged to the Restoration Institute but they were working here at the Museum. One of them was Juana María Navarro. We were never many people and there was always plenty of work, because at the beginning, although nobody asked us for anything specific, everything had yet to be done. We could be summoned by the director, first it was Pita Andrade and then Pérez Sánchez, to see if we could analyse some painting or other, especially in connection with queries from abroad, but here in the Museum there was not a great demand of technical studies. We were able to develop projects in the finest manner, because we were not under a lot of pressure.
It has become increasingly complicated, and the fact is that there three people permanently at the Office. In these years we've been able to work on more than 3,000 works.