THE LADY OF ELCHE MAY RETURN SOON

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The director of the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, Andrew Carter, has said that he considers it “reasonable” that within the next term of four years they will once again approve the relocation of the bust, “Dama de Elche”, for temporary exhibition to be held in the city of Elche, as had already happened in 2006.

The statement was made during a visit to Alicante for the premiere of the exhibition of treasures from the Mercedes frigate, which is being held in the Provincial Archaeological Museum of the Province of Alicante (MARQ). Carter explained he had “recently” met in Madrid with the mayor of Elche, Mercedes Alonso of the PP, who had requested a new temporary transfer of the statue.

It is not immediately possible to find a time when this would be suitable, Carter had explained, but during the next term there would be a “reasonable time” to do so.

Having opened the exhibition in Madrid in 2014, Carter explained that during the first two years of any archeological exhibition, it is not possible to transfer any part of a display.

Although the bust is closely associated with the people of Elche, Carter also explained that “the rest of the country also loves her and wants to see her in the National museum.”

Therefore, it is not possible for at least a year “for one part of the 13,000 piece permanent exhibition to move out of respect for visitors going to the newly opened museum and wanting to see the significant funds.”

According to Carter, there are between 200 and 300 parts in the display that are more relevant and “cannot move together, they cannot even miss four or five of those pieces at a time”, so to give the Dama de Elche would create a “hole” in the exhibition.

La Dama de Elche is considered the masterpiece of Iberian period and has exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum since 1972, except for the 6-month loan in 2006. It was discovered by chance in the site of La Alcudia in 1897 by a farmer and was sold to a French archaeologist, which led her to the Paris Louvre museum before, in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II, she was moved to Castle Muntadau, near Toulouse.

In 1941, negotiations between Spain and the Vichy government allowed her to be moved to Madrid’s Museo del Prado, where she remained until 1970, when she was given to her new and current home.

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