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The Museum in 1986
Manuel Montero Eugenia, Head of the Art Handling Staff, 1986-What's onThe Museum in 1986
Manuel Montero Eugenia, Head of the Art Handling Staff, 1986-What's on
My name’s Manuel Montero and I joined the Museum in 1986 after I passed the official exams of the Ministry of Culture. A number of us passed the exams to be museum guards and we were posted to the Museo del Prado.
The Museum as I found it then was quite different to the one it is today. On busy days with a lot of visitors and on summer afternoons, for example, we had to open or close the windows in the Goya rooms on the west side of the Villanueva Building as there was no air conditioning. Moneo’s extension hadn’t even been thought of then and the idea was still to expand the Museum into what is now the Museo Thyssen. So, it was all very different to what it is today.
He works at the Museum as a gallery attendant, although he spends most of his professional career working for the Museum's Art Handling Staff.
Interview recorded on June 18, 2018
Interview index
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The Museum in 1986 -
Ensuring the security of the works -
The 1987 strike -
From museum guard to member of the Art Handlers team -
The works of art in our hands -
Moving Las Meninas -
Technical evolution of the team -
The Museum’s dynamic -
The great Velázquez exhibition -
The Embarkation of Saint Paula by Claude Lorrain and other works -
On the other side of the mirror -
The legacy of great colleagues -
The secret passageway in the Villanueva Building
- Collective
- Art Handling
- Chronology
- 1980-1990
- RDF
- RDF
Theme
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Voces del Prado