April is a great month for lovers of literature and books since tomorrow April 23, International Book Day, is the kick-off for the fairs and 'bookseller' events.
To celebrate this day, 55 museum libraries and art and culture centers will flood cities throughout Spain with the release of more than 2.000 books through an experience of Bookcrossing.
Yes, dear readers, fifty of our cultural institutions will release about 2.000 copies related to different disciplines, mainly related to art and humanities.
For the seventh consecutive year this experience of Bookcrossing o book release campaign with the intention of flooding the cities with volumes from the bag of duplicates of the libraries of museums and cultural centers.
The participating institutions have planned to put into circulation more than two thousand free books with the intention that those who collect them, enjoy reading them and release them again in another part of the world.
All the released books will be credited with their corresponding labels, will contain the necessary instructions to facilitate the reader's participation in the campaign and will be registered on the web bookcrossing.com, where readers will be able to indicate the place where they will release each issue.
The objective of this initiative is to join museum libraries in the effort to promote reading and, more specifically, in the dissemination of knowledge of the different cultural disciplines.
Participating institutions
The word duplicate is well known to librarians. Normally duplicate works come from donations from other institutions, publishers, users, etc. and what is usually done with them is to offer them to other public institutions.
However, the following institutions have chosen to circulate their bags of duplicates among citizens, an initiative that we hope will last a long time.
- Library-Documentation Center of the MUSAC. Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León. (León)
- Library of the José Zorrilla House. (Valladolid)
- Valladolid City Council. Municipal Foundation of Culture. (Valladolid)
- UNED Library. (Madrid)
- IVAM Library. Valencian Institute of Modern Art. (Valencia)
- Library of the Madrid Railway Museum. (Madrid)
- Library of the Museum of Fine Arts of València. (Valencia)
- Library of the Galician Puppet Museum. (Lalin, Pontevedra)
- "Joaquim Folch i Torres" Library. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. (Barcelona)
- Library of the l'Iber Museum- Museum of the Lead Soldiers. (Valencia)
- Library of the Museu Marítim de Barcelona. (Barcelona)
- Library and Documentation Center. Artium, Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art. (Vitoria-Gasteiz)
- Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao. (Bilbao)
- CCCB, Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. (Barcelona)
- CENDEAC. Center for Documentation and Advanced Studies of Contemporary Art. (Murcia)
- Center d'Art la Panera. (Lleida)
- Documentation Center of the General Directorate of Popular Culture, Associacionisme i Acció Culturals. Department of Culture. (Barcelona)
- CAAM. Atlantic Center of Modern Art. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
- Montehermoso Kulturunea Cultural Center. (Vitoria-Gasteiz)
- Caja de Burgos Art Center. (Burgos)
- Huarte Contemporary Art Center. (Huarte, Navarre)
- La Regenta Art Center. (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
- Andalusian Performing Arts Documentation Center. (Sevilla)
- MACBA Study and Documentation Center. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. (Barcelona)
- CGAC, Galician Center for Contemporary Art. (Santiago de Compostela)
- It is Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma. (Palma de Mallorca)
- Escola Massana. Center d'Art i Disseny. (Barcelona)
- Antoni Tàpies Foundation. (Barcelona)
- Joan Miró Foundation. (Barcelona)
- BRUISE. Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante. (Alicante)
- FRAME. Museum of Contemporary Art of Vigo. (Vigo)
- MMC. Cantabrian Maritime Museum. (Santander)
- Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum- Casa Lis. (Salamanca)
- Jovellanos Birthplace Museum. (Gijón)
- Pilgrimage Museum of Santiago. Library. (Santiago de Compostela)
- Museum of America. (Madrid)
- Museum of Belas Artes da Coruña. (A Coruña)
- Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias. (Oviedo)
- Navarra Museum. (Pamplona)
- Museum of Valladolid. (Valladolid)
- Zamora Museum. (Zamora)
- Carlism Museum. (Estella-Lizarra, Navarre)
- Gas Museum of the Gas Natural Fenosa Foundation. (Sabadell, Barcelona)
- Costume Museum. CIPE. (Madrid)
- Ethnographic Museum of Cantabria. (Muriedas, Cantabria)
- Ethnographic Museum of Castilla y León. (Zamora)
- Ethnological Museum of Navarra "Julio Caro Baroja". (Estella, Navarre)
- Ethno-toxic Museum. (Ribadavia-Ourense)
- Eugenio Granell Foundation Museum. (Santiago de Compostela)
- Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum. (Madrid)
- González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts. Library. (Valencia)
- Nicanor Piñoles Museum. (Gijón)
- Archaeological museums of Gijón. (Gijón)
- Museum of Prehistory of Valéncia. (Valencia)
- Museum of the Town of Asturias. (Gijón)
- Tabakalera. (San Sebastian-Donostia)
How far will these books fly?