Espai Origens has assembled fifteen facilities of Lleida, Tarragona and Barcelona in order to seek initiatives that help relaunched

(19/02/2014) Fifteen centers of culture and interpretation of Lleida, Tarragona and Barcelona met Wednesday in Espai Orígens, Camarasa, in order to obtain tools help them make the role of agents in its territory. At the whorkshop they experuebces their realities with representatives of the Department of Museums of Catalunya, among other speakers have advised to face future prospects.

PhD in Education at the University of Barcelona, ​​Joan Santacana, has committed to research as a key element to achieve boost expository discourse of these centers. Citing the conclusions of the thesis of researcher Carolina Martin, he went, he made ​​clear that his current problem is due to the fact that “gave more importance is given to the construction than of the building and the work function would “.

Currently, one every four Catalan municipalities have a facility aimed at the dissemination and interpretation of heritage and a vast majority of these are publicly owned. The number of visitors is less than 5,000 people per year in half of these centers are mainly in municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. Between 2000 and 2009 were open most facilities of this type were opened, although almost a third of the total was opened in recent years (2010-2013). Linking museums of the area is given, today, 21% of cases.

The Head of Museums, Jusèp M. Boya, said that “we must work for the sustainability of equipment, obsess on finding the impact of the asset is exposed and make management focused on visitors.” In this sense he believes that the future lies for this type of centers established ways of collaboration with museums. Meanwhile, the manager of the Local Action Group of la Noguera and Segrià North Gemma Cortada added that we need to study how to “turn the tables” on the search for ways to attract more visitors.