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Showing posts with label Serena Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Serena Museum. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

A Mining Museum in Serena?

It is now widely known that there is a project to build an “Interpretation Centre for the Mine and Water Routes” and, as confirmed by the employees responsible for developing the project, a “small museum”.  The Independent/PP group presented a motion at the last plenary session questioning the choice of Serena as the location for the project, and gave the following reasons:


1.  The road is not suitable for large buses and there is no parking in Serena.

2.  The location is far from Bedar and other tourist sights such as the Tortoise House.

3.  The renovated schoolhouse in Serena is too small for the proposed project.

Our motion proposed instead the area around Tres Amigos for the following reasons:

 1.  Easy road access and plenty of parking space for cars and buses.

2.  Existence of historic buildings related to mining in the Tres Amigos area, including the already renovated Engineer House which would be ideal, given its historic importance, and large enough for the proposed project.

3.  Tres Amigos is close to the Tortoise House and is the starting point for the Mine Walk.

 (Before the motion was taken to a vote and overruled) the Mayor made the following arguments:

1.  The Mayor said that since the people of Bedar had elected him at the past elections, they had given their “tacit” approval of this project which had appeared in his political campaign and this in turn legitimized the choice of location.

2.  He further said he would be interested to know what the residents of Serena would think of the PP not wanting the museum to be located there.

We don´t need to comment on the absolute lack of real information over the project. And the impression we have that there has been little advance thought given to it or a viable overall tourist development plan for Bedar.  To the Mayor´s question about the residents of Serena - what do they think about the Museum? Are you a resident of Serena? Let us know what you think.  Also, what do the rest of Bedar think about  the proposed museum being set up far from Bedar and the other tourist sites of the town. If you have an opinion let us know.






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