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Record of return to the Board of Museums of works owned by the National Artistic Heritage Recovery Service (1940)

Date
1940
Archive
National Archive of Catalonia
Document type
Textual
Reference code
ANC1-715-T-2870
Link to the online document
Description

This file documents the return of works of art saved by the Republican Generalitat and recovered by the Franco regime. It is a witness to the struggle for the preservation of cultural heritage in times of war and repression. As an administrative and institutional document, it reflects the tension between the desire for cultural safeguarding and the political appropriation of heritage. Located in the Vegueria of Barcelona, ​​it is part of the themes of culture and art and international relations, showing how Catalan heritage is part of a shared and disputed European legacy.