The transfer of the profane works of Sixena will begin on July 6

BarcelonaThe National Art Museum of Catalonia informed the Aragonese government by letter this Tuesday that the transfer of the profane works from Sixena will begin on Monday, July 6, and will be completed this month, according to Efe. Unlike the murals in the chapter house, the profane works have less delicate conservation conditions and supports that are easier to move, so the MNAC has always stated to the judge that it could deliver "immediately".

The vice-president of the Aragonese government, Mar Vaquero, explained this during a visit to the monastery of Sixena, where she met with the Madrid company awarded the project. Vaquero expressed surprise at the Catalan museum's sudden "haste" and recalled that both the dismantling and the transfer "require administrative intervention by the government and its technicians" because they are goods that are part of the Cultural Heritage of Aragon. The Provincial Commission for Cultural Heritage of Huesca is the entity that should grant authorization and supervise the technical project, so that this month there should be specialists from the Aragonese government at the museum to give their approval to the transfer. The vice-president has requested "all possible security and the maximum conservation guarantees," as well as time to prepare the monastery's rooms where they will be exhibited.

This Wednesday, the government has asked the Catalan museum to send it the technical project for dismantling and transport before July 10th. Taking advantage of this communication, Aragon has reminded the MNAC that it must comply with the court ruling that obliges it to return the mural paintings within 56 weeks, which began to count on April 10th. Vaquero has asked the museum that "no information be omitted about the works it is carrying out to execute the sentence". "We would not want to have to resort to forced execution —he has warned—, for which we are also logically prepared".