The transfer of the Beja Regional Museum to the Ministry of Culture's museum network prompted a series of questions from MPs João Dias and Ana Mesquita, elected by the PCP, addressed to that ministry.
The management of the Regional Museum of Beja was the responsibility of the Intermunicipal Community of Baixo Alentejo (CIMBAL) since May 2015, when the institution received that competence, the assets and employees of the District Assembly of Beja.
However, the communist deputies point out, the Beja Regional Museum will no longer be managed by CIMBAL and will become part of the Ministry of Culture's museum network, under shared management with the Municipality of Beja.
This change was approved by the Council of Ministers, on the 7th of February, through a Decree-Law that seeks to transfer the tutelage of the Museu Regional de Beja to the Regional Delegation of Culture of Alentejo.
The parliamentarians recall that, on the 11th, the regional delegate for the Alentejo Culture and representatives of CIMBAL were at the Museum, to expedite the transfer process.
Faced with this change in the statute of the museum in the capital of Baixo Alentejo, the two MPs from the PCP want to know “which entities were heard so that the Government could take this decision” and “how they pronounced themselves”.
The parliamentarians also ask "what is the planned investment plan for the Regional Museum of Beja".
In addition, in their application addressed to the Ministry of Culture, the parliamentarians of Alentejo also want to know if the Government can “guarantee that all the assets and collections of the Regional Museum of Beja will be kept in its custody, not being dispersed by other national institutions. or international'.
The deputies' concern extends to the Museum's workers, wanting to know “what will be their future with regard to the relationship and entity with which they will have a working relationship”.
Finally, the two communist parliamentarians questioned the Government about shared management with the Municipal Council of Beja, wanting to know “in what form this so-called shared management will be carried out” and “what are the responsibilities of each entity involved”.
In their application, deputies João Dias and Ana Mesquita recalled that «the Museu Rainha Dona Leonor, better known and referred to as the Regional Museum of Beja, is the oldest museum, not only in the city of Beja, but in the country».
Installed in the Nossa Senhora da Conceição convent, this Museum holds a «rich and vast collection, namely the collections of Painting, Archaeology, Tiles, Sculpture, Gold, Ceramic Utility, Numismatics, Metrology and Hardware».
«The painting nucleus stands out, which brings together works produced in Portugal, Spain and Holland, between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries».
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