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Not a single day without passion or enthusiasm
Francisco Calvo Serraller, Museum Director, 1993-1994Not a single day without passion or enthusiasm
Francisco Calvo Serraller, Museum Director, 1993-1994
Being the Director of the Prado was good in every sense, except for the material sense. Although I drew the same salary as I had as a professor, I was unable to pursue any other means of complementing my income and I had no other way of nourishing my spirit.
The job was so absorbing that I didn’t have a minute free. In spite of my woes, I have some very good memories of my fleeting time at the Museum. First, from the moment I was appointed up until the day I resigned, I went to the Museum every single day, including Sundays, Saturdays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day …, each and every day. On every single one of the 200-odd days I was Director, I went to the Museum. I approached my job with considerable passion and enthusiasm.
Director of the Museo del Prado from 1993 to 1994, he was a founding member and Trustee of the Board of the Friends of the Museo del Prado Foundation. Moreover, he was Professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the curator of several exhibitions and an art critic.
Interview recorded on October 04, 2018
Interview index
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Head of the Museum and founding member of The Friends of The Prado Museum Foundation -
The history of Spain reflected through the Museum -
Different Directors: aristocrats, artists, art historians -
I never dreamt I might head the Museo del Prado one day -
Qualities required to head The Prado -
Political tact and public relations required to head The Prado -
The Director must walk round the Museum -
The Prado: a political football -
Budgetary paradoxes and ridiculous cultural policies -
A neglected museum up until the first Aznar government in 1996 -
Miguel Zugaza (2002): The ideal person at an optimum moment -
An exciting moment: The battle of the attendants -
Coordinating a museum and attending to all members of staff -
A non-existent press department -
Resignation -
Not a single day without passion or enthusiasm -
The warmth of the employees -
Oral recollection: Talking with body and mind
- Collective
- Management
- Chronology
- 1990-2000
- RDF
- RDF
Collective
Management
Felipe Garín Llombart
Museum Director, 1991-1993
Miguel Zugaza Miranda
Museum Director, 2002-2017
Fernando Checa Cremades
Museum Director, 1996-2001
Gabriele Finaldi
Assistant Director of Conservation and Research, 2002-2015
Manuela Mena Marqués
Head of the Department of Conservation of 18th Century Painting and Goya, 1978-2019
José María Luzón Nogué
Museum Director, 1994-1996
Theme
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Voces del Prado