The Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat will subsidize with 2,100,057 euros, during the period of 2022-2025, the reform and museography of the Monastery of Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona), where the Carmen Thyssen Museum will be located, which will display its collection of Catalan paintingas reported on Monday by the department.
The Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga, accompanied by heads of her department, visited the monastery today, Monday, where she met with the mayor of the coastal town, Carles Motas, the first deputy mayor, Josep Melcior Muñoz, the Baroness Carmen Cervera and the member of the Thyssen Foundation Guillermo Cervera, as well as with representatives of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos.
Garriga has been able to learn “first-hand” about the project, which has been talked about for almost fifteen years, and has been interested in the aspects and phases of the construction of the future centre.
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The meeting ended with a brief visit to the monastic enclosure, which is expected to house the permanent collection of Carmen Thyssen’s 19th and 20th century Catalan painting collection. At the moment it has not transpired which works will make up that permanent collection. The Monastery of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, of the Benedictine order, has more than a thousand years of history and has Romanesque and Gothic elements.
Sant Feliu de Guíxols already has the Espai Carmen Thyssen since 2012, dedicated to temporary exhibitions of pieces from the Baroness’s collection.