Urtasun “remeans” Rajoy’s project to create the Film Museum in the former NO-DO headquarters

The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, announced this Wednesday the cession of the old NO-DO building to the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences for its future conversion into a Museum of Cinema. This project, which has been discussed since the 1980s, is an old desire of the Academy and has its most immediate precedent in 2017.

The Film Museum will be located in Madrid, not Valladolid, as previously requested. The Ministry of Culture has chosen the city of Madrid to promote the first Spanish Film Museum. The city of Valladolid had been pursuing such a project for years, but it has not been possible. Therefore, the Councilor for Tourism, Events, and City Brand of Valladolid, Blanca Jiménez, has attacked the government for "mistreating and scorning" the city after "rejec…

The historic building will go to a museum, but there is still no concrete project or guaranteed budget.

The future Museum of Cinema will be located in the old building of the NO-DO, the film news that was broadcast weekly in the Spanish halls during Francoism, following the agreement reached by the Ministry of Culture and the Academy of Cinema for the cession of the facilities.Continue reading...

The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, announced on Wednesday the transfer of the NO-DO building in Madrid to the Film Academy for the creation of the Film Museum. “Thanking the academy for this collaborative project, which is an act that serves to recover cinema memory. What a better place to house a future film museum than this space, which re-signifies what the NO-DO was,” the minister said. For his part, the president of the Film Academy, …

Madrid will host the Museum of Cinema. And it will do so in the old building of the NO-DO. This has been announced this Wednesday by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, and the president of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences, Fernando Méndez-Leite. During the presentation of the project, in addition, they have formalized the cession of the property located in calle Velázquez, 145. The museum is born with the aim of creating an…