This morning, the Alfred Perenya Room of the Department of Culture hosted the presentation of the Morera’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Lleida, a document that establishes the fundamental objectives of the new Museum. The mayor of Lleida, Miquel Pueyo, and the director of the Museum, Jesús Navarro, were responsible for the presentation, in which they exposed the main lines of action of the new Morera Museum. The presentation was also attended by the councilor for Culture, City and Ecological Transition and at the same time deputy of the Provincial Council of Lleida, Jaume Rutllant; the delegate of the Territorial Services of Culture in Lleida, Albert Turull; the head of the Museums and Protection of Movable Assets Service of the Generalitat, Magda Gassó; a large representation of councilors from the Municipal Corporation; the director of the Morera Museum, Jesús Navarro, and different people who represented the cultural fabric of Lleida.

The Morera Strategic Plan 2022-2025. Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Lleida is a document that establishes the main objectives of the new Museum. The director of the equipment, Jesús Navarro, has described the Morera road map and the main axes with which he will work in the coming years. The Morera Strategic Plan conceptually redefines the Museum with relevant collections of modern and contemporary art, and wants to position it in the local and national context. In addition, the opening of the new headquarters will be accompanied by some social and educational axes of action, which will become two important poles of the Museum’s action, and some communicative and digital strategies that will make it a cultural equipment of its own 21st century The Museum broadens its narrative to cover the entire 20th century and the first decades of the 21st, betting on modern and contemporary art. In this way, he places his speeches in a time and space increasingly close to the present, which should allow him to address the challenges and debates of our society.

Navarro explained: “We are faced with a historic opportunity to repair one of the traditional grievances in the field of culture in the city of Lleida and the country, and we can do it with a clear, modern and exciting project, which we hope will enjoy your complicity.” Rutllant pointed out that work is being done to ensure that the new Morera opens its doors in the summer of 2023 —if the civil work being carried out to enable the old Audiencia de Lleida is completed in the first months of 2023, as expected—, and that the full integration of the museography will then be carried out. Gassó was very satisfied that the Morera will be a reality: “Although it has been a reality for many years, at the same time it has not yet become a reality. From now on, it will be.” Turull, for his part, conveyed his commitment to strengthening the network of museums, especially that of the Morera, with national and international projection. Finally, the head of the museum highlighted that, after more than 100 years of history, the Morera achieves one of its main milestones, being located in its own and definitive space, on the Rambla de Ferran, and at the same time it is conceptually transformed, since it assumes the mission of promoting knowledge about modern and contemporary art, as well as generating new ones, with special attention to art linked to the Terres de Ponent.