Un gran reto para el Museo Nacional del Prado: la celebración de su Bicentenario. Un caso práctico de gestión en museos

Abstract

The aim of this article is not to provide a thorough description of all the activities that shaped the commemorative programme of the Museo del Prado´s Bicentenary throughout 2019, but to show a range of key activities in order to manage such an important event. Such actions have been carried out in conjunction with the museum´s day-to-day management and demanded a major effort from the whole team.  The administrative capabilities of the museum —under the integral management model defined by interwoven technical tasks linked to the artistic collections and the most purely managerial tasks— have enabled us to accomplish such a great challenge.All in all, this commemorative Bicentenary has demanded from this institution a complex mobilization of human, financial, technical and physical resources, which has in turn required working on three key pillars: coordination, planning and communication. These words seek to help all readers who may have to face the management of a similar historic event in future.