2024-01-09 09:07:42
He Museum of Archeology of bathrooms still the final stretch of the remodeling works and the mayor, Miquel Noguer, has announced that he plans to open it to the public in the middle of this 2024. The initial forecasts were finish the works in the second semester of last year, but the discovery of a new wall lock and the lack of supplies have delayed the works. At the moment, the works in the old part have been finished, where the Gothic building of the Pia Almoina has been restored. Now, the project is focused on the new part of the museum and the new module is being built which will become the new entrance to the facility and there will also be a storage space, an auditorium and educational spaces.
It has now been two years since the Archaeological Museum of Banyoles closed its doors to start the comprehensive reform process. At that time, a deadline was set to finish the works, which ended in the first semester of 2023. When the works were finished, the new museumization would have to be executed and for this reason the government team calculated to reopen the museum during the second semester of the year that has now closed.
At that time, however, the war between Russia and Ukraine had not yet broken out. The armed conflict brought important supply problems of raw materials in the construction sector. That is why the first delay was just starting the works, when the company already anticipated that the supplies would not arrive on time and this would imply a delay.
Excavations in the outer courtyard of the Archaeological Museum of Banyoles have uncovered a new lock of the medieval wall
The fact of restoring a Gothic building, however, also implies that unforeseen events can arise like now architectural findings. In this case, workers found a new medieval wall lock that they analyzed and studied. An important find for the history of the city but which brought the work to a standstill, once again.
This set of delays made the council give up on seeing the museum completed in 2023 and they were located in reopen it in 2024. Now, the mayor of Banyoles, Miquel Noguer, has announced that the restoration of the entire Gothic building has already been completed and only the construction of the adjacent building. This is a space that will become the new main entrance to the museum and will host the reception, in addition to educational spaces, an auditorium and internal storage.
Once these works are completed, the new museumization project, which has been completely renovated based on the new spaces of the building. Despite everything, the mayor of Banyoles is confident that “in half a year” the facility will reopen its doors.
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