Museums poor!

No wonder some of our museums, public orphans, do not raise head. To attract visitors, modern cultural containers must be located in large cities, El Prado in Madrid, National Gallery in London, L'Hermitage in St. Petersburg ... - or have the unique artistic wealth of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence or the uniqueness of the Van Gogh? Amsterdam.

But, of course, that is given to Salamanca and what gives, besides competing with other towns in the region to be engaged all such museums as the most.

The downside, however, is not that, but the lack of faith in our own historical and artistic merits, the uncertainty of a stable and solid cultural project and pusillanimity to assume once and for all we have to be capital of knowledge, culture and language.

Added to this conceptual chaos is not only the languid survive some museums, but the accumulation of disparate projects and even contradictory and insufficient information and projecting enough of them.

There are, for example, a Museum of Commerce, according to its meager contents of four junk and half a dozen photographs, does not allow us to know the business in Salamanca before the Vía de la Plata to date, which This justifies the ominous absence of the public.

Unlike the case of the Automotive Museum, I've traveled with the same awful loneliness that the Trade-which, however, is the most unique and attractive of its kind. In it, my friend Bob Deboisblanc, an American classic car lover, he enjoyed as a child. Yet we have failed to report that we have a museum of these features or make deals that encompass tourist visits to different museums, as in other places.

It is not, therefore, in my modest point of view, there is a lawless municipality to create museums hobby's sake, but the lack of rigor in their selection and the subsequent lack of projection once opened.

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