The Demolition of the Royal Stables and the Projects of a Failed Republican Museum: From the Cars and Popular Arts Museum to the Weapons and Tapestries Museum

Together with the collective background of the artistic practices in the so-called Silver Age, we should give the cultural policy of the Second Spanish Republic the importance it deserves. In addition, the progressive governments of this period of Spain's history were concerned with cultural management, although due to the hastiness of their government, many of these projects remained on paper only. In these pages we are going to analyze one of the most interesting and lesser-known initiatives of this period: the failed project of the Cars and Popular Arts Museum of 1934, which in 1936 was renamed the Weapons and Tapestries Museum, which would not come to fruition either. The current project for the Royal Collections Museum is the inevitable consquence of both these ideas.