The Toy Museum of Sintra will even close in late August, after having been broken off negotiations with the municipality for its continuation, said on Tuesday the proprietary source foundation of the vast collection exposed in the village.
“The museum closes on August 31 and have to leave the building at the request of the chamber at the end of September,” said Lusa Arbués João Moreira, son of the collector who, since 1989, the historic center exposes much more than 60 000 toys collected over a lifetime.
The vice-president of the council, Rui Pereira (PS), regrets that Arbués Moreira Foundation has not submitted a counterproposal to the availability of the camera to create a municipal museum, in order to maintain the open equipment, and explained that the municipality “is barred by law to fund the foundation.”
“We could not accept the protocol because we lost control of the collection of toys and had to lay off employees in the same,” explained John Arbués Moreira, who criticized the ten years of the Protocol and the “camera power give to others parts of the museum. ” The son of the creator of the collection held that the president of the council showed no interest in the current museum when he said that this could not be just a “warehouse” of toys.
John Arbués Moreira said that the Board has received Lisbon “an expression of interest to host the Toy Museum” and that the closure in Sintra will take “collective redundancies” seven employees, some with 17 years of service at the museum.
Law on Foundations dictated closing
The more than 60 000 toys that comprise the estate of the museum, almost all of the personal collection of John Arbués Moreira, are exposed for 16 years at the old fire station in the village of Sintra, recovered by architect Aires Mateus expressly for this purpose. The camera yielded the free space and still supported the Arbués Moreira Foundation with a monthly allowance of five thousand euros. However, with the new law on foundations which came into effect last year, the municipality had to stop subsidizing the museum.
In the past year, the Foundation admitted that the museum would have to close up December, which did not happen. However, on May 15 announced that those responsible would have to close doors by the end of August, justifying the closure with a marked reduction of visitors and the impossibility of ensuring financial sustainability.
However, there was meetings between the camera and the foundation but negotiations have not come to fruition. “There was no counterproposal foundation,” said the vice president of the chamber, ensuring “not yet have official confirmation” of the foundation to proceed with foreclosure.
“Protocol says expressly that the collection is the foundation and the deadline would be ten years or other period they want, “said Rui Pereira, who stressed:” We just can not afford money to expose the collection, by estoppel as any entity of government. ” The mayor explained that the camera refused to go on the property occupied by the end of the year, to be found as soon as possible “a new occupation” for the building. A vast collection of toys, which represents the history of mankind since the seventeenth century to the present, has received more than 900 000 visitors and will remain boxed until you find a new home.
Lusa contacted the City of Lisbon, but due to the absence of Councillor of Culture, who is on vacation, it was not possible to confirm interest in receiving the collection Arbués Moreira
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