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The City Council of Cartagena has begun the process to put in value the Ethnographic Museum of the Ports of Santa Barbara.

A project that will consist of three phases as informed by the Councilor for Tourism and Rural Development, Obdulia Gómez, whose first phase is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2017.

For the moment the work is being carried out to inventory each of the pieces that the museum has, for that they have to identify all the elements by producing a technical file of each of them, which will include what material is made, what measures They already have a category.

Once everything is documented, the second phase will include an expansion of the physical space of the museum, which the councilor estimates should be practically double the current one.

What is still unclear is whether the expansion will be in height or annexing adjacent terrain, will depend on the opinion of the technicians who have been commissioned the study.

The aim is that the writing of this project can be ready also in the first half of this year.

From here, the Councilor for Tourism and Rural Development says she is "ready to call as many doors as necessary to facilitate the financing of both the physical expansion of the building and the subsequent musealization project, which would constitute the third and final phase ".

Gómez has advanced that "it is important for us to value this museum because in this way we are preserving an essential part of our history, which helps us to remember our roots.

It is a very special museum for this area of ​​Cartagena, because it contains more than a thousand pieces, most of which have been donated by the neighbors. "

Many of these elements have been handcrafted and, as a whole, describe the way of life and customs of the west of Cartagena.

There we have furniture, antique vehicles, farming tools, a varied sample of handicrafts and even pieces of the trousseau of many women of the town.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena