The celebration of International Museum Day, tomorrow Saturday, May 18, is a good opportunity to remember that Lanzarote has a varied museum offer: the Tanit Ethnographic Museum of San Bartolomé, the ...
The celebration of International Museum Day, tomorrow Saturday, May 18, is a good opportunity to remember that Lanzarote has a varied museum offer: the Tanit Ethnographic Museum of San Bartolomé, the Timple and Piracy Museums of Teguise, the César Manrique Foundation, the Saramago House in Tías, the Sacred Museum of Haría, the El Patio Agricultural Museum or the Museum of Contemporary Art Castillo de San José, to which the Arrecife History Museum will soon be added, in the Castillo de San Gabriel.
These are ambitious and quality entities, which form a network capable of offering cultural content of interest to those who visit Lanzarote and those who live on this island.
But on this day, we cannot fail to remember the enormous loss that the closure of the Canary Islands Cetacean Museum has meant for our tourist and educational offer. The closure of a center chosen by our visitors as the best museum in Lanzarote must force administrations to reflect on the indispensable agreement between the public and private sectors, when it comes to guaranteeing the survival of cultural entities.
I am convinced that there are, must exist, financial resources, and above all, perfect locations, to reopen the Cetacean Museum. Its initial promoters deserve it, who found an imaginative and quality space within the framework of leisure that is increasingly tending towards standardization. Our society and also those who visit us deserve it.
There remains the reflection and, above all, the task of contributing from all areas to the maintenance of the differentiated cultural offer, linked to what is our own, with a message and with values, one of whose most notable examples is the Cetacean Museum.
*María Dolores Corujo, general secretary of the PSOE of Lanzarote.
