Voces del Prado

The Museum in 1971

Felícitas Martínez Pozuelo, Administrative Technician, 1971-2018

In 1971 the Museum was very small-scale in human terms, small but very interesting. There were amazing people. I think its intellectual level was at a peak. There was Xavier de Salas, the director, Pérez Sánchez, the deputy director, and Matías Díaz Padron in the curatorial department as well as Rocío Arnaez, among others. Also there, as that’s where I met him, was Diego Angulo, whom I hugely admired when he was alive and still do. I still remember him as the greatest intellectual I have met.
I became quite expert in reading difficult handwriting as Diaz Padrón’s, Pérez Sánchez’s, Diego Anguló’s and Xavier de Salas’s were easy for me and I had to type a lot of their publications at that time.
The Museum was small then but very active. The funding was precarious but everyone learned there and did a bit of everything. Regarding my training I always say that I had the best teachers. I learned to work as I was totally inexperienced, I’d never done anything before and they all taught me.