Voces del Prado

The Board of Trustees of the Museum

Carlos Zurita Delgado. Duke of Soria, Chairman of the Friends of the Museo del Prado Foundation, 1988-What's on

I think it’s essential that someone on the Board of the Fundación is also on the Board of the Museum. Carmen Alborch, the Minister of Culture, rang me and asked me to join the board as an individual member and of course I accepted. It was only four years later that I achieved what I pointed out at the beginning when gratefully accepting her offer, namely that it was not a person who should hold the position but a specific post, in other words not me as a person but the president of the Amigos del Prado, and that finally came about four years later as there weren’t enough places. I seem to remember there was a problem with the number of institutional places and that had to be modified, so finally it’s not me as an individual that’s on the Board but the president of the Fundación, for which I was very grateful and considered logical.