2004-09-16

Changes in the Spanish Cultural Panorama: Cultural Policy or Cultural Politics?

The Spanish general elections in March resulted in an unexpected change of the party in government, switching from the Popular Party, in office for 8 years, to the former governing party for 14 years, the Spanish Workers Socialist Party. It is worth to observe that one of the priorities of the new Prime Minister, Rodriguez Zapatero, is precisely culture...

The changes in the Ministry of Culture, and subsequent changes in the governing bodies of major Spanish museums started a debate on the right of politicians to change Directors of museums, the excessive links between cultural managers and the government in office and concluded with the general belief that Museums, many of them now engaged in important architectural and structural reforms, should be more independent of political changes...

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A background report by Elvira Marco, Correspondent, Madrid