| Abstrakt: |
On 14 August 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, Sir Frederic Kenyon, director of the British Museum, and James Mann, keeper of the Wallace Collection in London, visited the Catalan city of Girona, close to the border with France. They had been sent to Spain by the British government to ascertain at first hand the impact of the war on Spain's artistic heritage, and to assess the efforts being made by the Republican government to protect it. During their visit, they devoted particular attention to the People's Museum, on which the Catalan authorities had been working since the outbreak of the civil war, and which they planned to open in October of that year. At the time of the visit, the war had already been raging for a year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
