Overview
- - A Huesca judge set a 56-week deadline for the Sijena murals to leave Barcelona’s Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya and be reinstalled at the Monastery of Santa María de Sijena, enforcing a 2025 Supreme Court ruling.
- - The museum’s legal team is preparing an appeal and has five days to file it, after confirming receipt of the court notice.
- - The order makes MNAC responsible for carrying out and paying for the dismantling and transport, and it authorizes Aragón to execute the move at the museum’s expense if deadlines are missed.
- - Museum officials cite technical reports warning that the fragile Romanesque fragments face high risk in any removal, and Barcelona’s culture chief said he doubts Aragón will attempt the operation because of that risk.
- - The dispute has widened into a political fight over preservation standards, with ERC urging the city to press Spain’s Culture Ministry to apply strict safeguards like those used for Picasso’s Guernica after the government opposed a temporary loan to the Guggenheim Bilbao.