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They Paid You When There Was Money Available
Montserrat Sabán Godoy, Management Technician, 1977-2016They Paid You When There Was Money Available
Montserrat Sabán Godoy, Management Technician, 1977-2016
When I finished my work experience at the Museum that year, this coincided with the commencement about the Museum’s works in store. So they asked me whether I would stay on in order to work with the archives. And I stayed. In those days they paid you when there was money available, depending on the entrance tickets they’d sold or any other source of finance they’d received. I remember that there was no subsidy or anything like it. We were paid in an envelope, as it were; sometimes you received this amount and sometimes that, depending on the funds available. They didn’t pay much, of course, but you were delighted because you were working in something you really enjoyed.
She joined the Museo del Prado with one year of experience as a trainee, later going on to review the material of the permanent collection ("Prado disperso"). She joined the Temporary Exhibition Service and later worked in the Permanent Collection where it is responsible for remodeling the rooms and controlling the movements of the works of art.
Interview recorded on June 28, 2018
Interview index
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Late 1978 -
Thanks to Javier Morales -
Rocío Arnáez and Work Experience -
They Paid You When There Was Money Available -
A Very Small Team -
The Late 1970’s: Guides for Official Visitors -
Four Years Reviewing the Deposited Works: An Almost Police-Like Labour -
Coordination of Temporary Exhibitions -
The Permanent Collection -
Curators and the Art Handler team -
The Directors Leave Their Mark -
The Room of Las Meninas -
A Marvellous Experience
Theme
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Voces del Prado