In mid-November the process of dismantling and moving the more than 46.000 pieces of art and archaeological material will begin.
Since July 8, 2020, the Ministry of Culture and Heritage (MCYP) assumed responsibility for the destination, use, care, custody, administration and costs of conservation and maintenance of the building where the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) operated. Now, it will be the new headquarters of the country’s cultural heritage.
After several insistence on the part of the former Minister of Culture and current candidate for the Presidency, Juan Fernando Velasco, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, who guarded the UNASUR headquarters, signed the Interinstitutional Agreement with the MCYP for the delivery of the building, located in the middle of the World.
The infrastructure is delivered, despite the fact that there is a clause in the Donation deed, signed between the Chancellery and the Prefecture of Pichincha in 2010, which indicates that, if the Ecuadorian Chancellery does not allocate the property to be the headquarters of UNASUR, it will be it will revert its dominion in favor of the Provincial Council of Pichincha.
Velasco required the facilities to move the national reserve because the Aranjuez building, where the heritage pieces are housed, is a structure that never had the necessary structural conditions to support the weight of the reserve, according to various technical reports.
According to information published by the former minister, the referential budget for the transfer is USD 295.865, including VAT, which includes specialized packaging and packaging, transportation.
The ministry reported that the transfer of cultural and heritage assets requires a specialized and orderly process that consists of different phases, such as the consolidation of a technical regulatory framework, the development of different protocols for the security of assets, personnel and to comply with all biosafety measures, minimal adaptation of some spaces in the new building, transfer and assembly of specialized furniture, all this before carrying out the transfer and assembly of the cultural and heritage assets of the national reserve.
Several of these phases have already been completed and they announced that, in mid-November, the process of dismantling and transferring the more than 46.000 pieces of art and archaeological material will begin to the former UNASUR headquarters.
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