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The museum, a former municipal use building has been fully refurbished, has exhibition space on the ground floor and the top reserve in an office for each grouping of Easter
The president of the Community, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, opened today at the Museum of The Union Easter Mining, whose offices also house the headquarters of the Illustrious Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of Miners.
During his visit to the town, the regional chief executive was accompanied by the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, and counselors of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and Public Works and Planning, Antonio Sevilla.
The museum center is located in an old building with ground floor and a single height, with 382 m2, which, until its reform, welcomed various municipal uses and has undergone a complete restoration at the price of 283,902 euros, the Community has contributed 50 percent through the Directorate General of Land and Housing.
During the ceremony, President Valcárcel stressed that "the importance of Holy Week in La Union, whose passion processions are declared of Regional Tourist Interest and is pending its declaration as National Tourist Interest, was necessary to have a building that perfectly enabled could be known and admired in all its glory. "
On the ground floor of the museum has exhibition space and meeting room, while upstairs is reserved an office for each grouping of Easter Minera.
The bill also changes the access to the building, which is now produced from the square, thereby revitalizing urban space adjacent.
Delivery of the Christ of the Miners
Prior to the opening of the Museum, Ramón Luis Valcárcel presided at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary delivering the image of Christ of Miners, after completion of rehabilitation which has been subjected, and which this year celebrates its centenary since it was carved in 1913 by the Valencian artist José Gerique Chust.
The rehabilitation of the Christ of the Miners has been conducted in the Center for Restoration of the Region of Murcia along a process that has lasted more than four months.
The image, which was originally Firefighters Christ and later of the Red Cross, is a polychrome wood carving depicting Jesus died on the cross in dimensions greater than the natural (224 x 155 x 45 cm).
The play had a very poor condition because of the abundant dirt, rust varnish, repainting, mildew stains and polychrome multiple detachments, as accused pathologies.
After due preliminary scientific study, which found their conservation status and provided the necessary information on how it was done by the artist, applied various treatments, which included, among others, a physical-chemical cleaning to remove non-original layers, the removing rust stains from an old water filtration, recovery pictorial and applying a protective varnish to the original color.
Complementing the work on the image, the original cross was also bugged.
Specifically, varnishes eliminating non-original color again recovered and restored the home corner in silver gilt corlada.
The sculptor and carver Joseph Gerique Chust (1868-1943) was born in Valencia, where it was formed and where he had his studio.
He was a Gold Medal at the National Eucharistic Exposition of 1893 and the Regional Valencia and some outstanding exhibits and displays in the United States and Argentina.
His orders were lavished from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in a very interesting historical moment for spiritual and liturgical renewal of the Catholic Church, which resulted in a more purist aesthetic visual and plastic arts, which Gerique was one of their top representatives.
In the Region of Murcia worked over the first decade of the twentieth century, with works as recognized as the Christ of the Miners Union and an image of St. John the Evangelist, not forgetting those made for Lorca, as the image of Santiago Apostle, head of the Parish of St. James (1915), and the carving of the Virgin of the Three Hail Marys to St. Matthew (1921).
Source: CARM
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