La herencia envenenada. El periplo de las colecciones artísticas, arqueológicas y científicas en Cataluña

At the end of the Civil War, museums and public institutions were nourished, or even, in some cases, created, by the art concentrations carried out by the Republican government beginning in July 1936. Some of the works detailed in the inventories of Republican deposits are now on display in the galleries of the main museums. Many others remain in storage. To date, it has not been possible to accurately trace the process of their entry. Although the affiliation of these works is mostly known, there is a still-unquantified number of works deposited by the heritage services established by the dictatorship government, lacking documentation that would allow us to determine their origin and, therefore, the legality of their entry, while also enabling their correct cataloging. This volume compiles the research carried out within the framework of the IGUEMUS project: The Impact of the Civil War on the Configuration of Museums in Catalonia. Traceability, location and destination of saved cultural assets (2022-2026, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. PID 2021-124518NB-I00) and proposes a reflection on the impact that the policies carried out by the first Franco regime around the Republican deposits created during the Civil War have on the current configuration of museums.

Gemma Domènech Casadevall (Girona, 1970). Director of the Catalan Institute of Research in Cultural Heritage (ICRPC) and Associate Professor Serra Húnter at the Department of History and Art History of the University of Girona (UdG). Doctor in History of Art from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2000), she has been a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Research in Cultural Heritage (2009-2018 and 2021-2022), associate professor at the University of Girona (2013-2023) and General Director of Democratic Memory of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2019-2021).

Eduard Caballé i Colom (Tordera, 1995) is a researcher at the Catalan Institute for Research in Cultural Heritage (ICRPC-CERCA). Doctor of History and Master in Cultural Management, his research focuses on the safeguarding of heritage during the Civil War and the subsequent Francoist management of cultural assets. He is part of the research team of the Ministerial Research Project Aguemus (PID 2021-124518nb-i00).

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