Gaudí, the Teresianes of Ganduxer and the Museum that is wanted to be made there

Groups of parents of students, residents of Tres Torres and Bonanova, PP and Vox have demonstrated against the project to convert the building that Antoni Gaudí built for the Teresianes on Ganduxer street in Barcelona in 1890 into a museum dedicated to the architect. They do not want visitors or tourists because they say it will break the tranquility of a residential neighborhood, bring crime, and harm the daily life of the school.

I wanted to go and see the complex, and I can affirm that the parents' fears are unfounded. Classes have not been held in the building intended for the museum for years, and therefore, students and visitors will never coincide. Furthermore: they will never coincide in the entire complex, of which Gaudí's "castle" must occupy about 10% of the entire plot. Students will continue to enter and exit through the same accesses as now, while visitors will have a separate entrance and all the internal routes for the children to go to the classrooms (located in other buildings) or to the sports fields or courtyards, will be totally segregated.

The nuns say that if it were about money, they would sell the building and go elsewhere. But for the Teresianes, the convent is not just any building, because Gaudí received the commission directly from the founder of the order, Saint Enric d’Ossó. The famous and stylized corridors with vaults and parabolic arches, which we have always had to see in photos and which we will now be able to visit, are only one of the thousand spiritual details with which Gaudí converted into a residence las moradas of Saint Teresa. That is why they do not want to part with it. But maintaining this jewel is very expensive, and controlled visits, with day and time, would solve the economic problem at the same time as opening this disused space to everyone without harming the school. The municipal campaign and WhatsApp fires should not prevent us from hearing the Teresianes' reasons.