Pamplona (EFE).- The University of Navarra Museum (MUN) has joined forces with the Botín Center in Santander, the Chillida Leku in Hernani and the Fine Arts Museum in Bilbao by joining the collaboration agreement that these three museums have maintained for years for the joint promotion of their centers and the exchange of visitors.
The collaboration agreement was signed this Thursday at the MUN by the director of this museum, Jaime García del Barrio, the director of Bilbao Fine Arts, Miguel Zugaza, the director of Chillida Leku, Mireia Massagué, and the director of the Foundation Booty, Inigo Saenz de Miera.
By virtue of this agreement, each of the centers will apply a 20% discount on the general admission price of each space to visitors who have previously attended any of the other three entities or have the Cantabrian Pass and present at the box office. the entry that proves it.
The Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Botín Foundation and the MUN will count with a 30% discount on admission, as well as the holders of the Chillida Leku annual pass.
Museums that share a public service mission
They will also collaborate in the promotion of the rest of the museums by announcing them in the communication supports of each one of them, especially in their digital channels, with the aim of promoting their collaboration and cultural offer to promote the exchange of visitors in the field of this axis of cooperation created on the Cantabrian side.
This network, underlined García del Barrio, “intends to better serve citizens and visitors” to facilitate their access to the rest of the museums in the network through an agreement that further deepens the mutual collaboration that has been taking place for years. .
The four centers, he has assured, share a “mission of service to the public with complementary visions of approach to art” providing people who do not live in Madrid or Barcelona access to a “varied offer” and “high quality” that ” it has nothing to envy to the great European and world capitals”.
Sáenz de Miera agreed with him, considering that they should be “very proud” and “overcome certain complexes” typical of humbler cities because they are “doing things that could be in any great museum” around the world.
In the opinion of the director of the MUN, this agreement “will empower the people of Navarre to know what is happening in other places and will be of interest to many of its visitors, a “varied” public but which coincides by being “interested in art in general”. ”.
For Zugaza, the incorporation of a museum as integrated into university life as is the case of the MUN is very interesting to “be able to count on that university community” since “it is very difficult” to attract this profile even for a center like the Fine Arts of Bilbao located in front of a university and close to an important university campus.
This collaboration is also beneficial to attract people who travel the northern routes, Massagué assured, pointing out that more and more are moved by art and this is an opportunity to promote this tourism accompanied by the more traditional enjoyment of gastronomy.