Case study #16 Adams Family Values.

The Violeta Parra Museum was attacked with fire and rock three times in January and February 2020, Ground Zero. Violeta Parra's daughter is the custodian of the collection for this purpose-built public museum that opened in 2015. In May 2020 the daughter, Isabel, withdrew all of her Mother's art and music, permanently closing the museum. This was not because of the danger of arson. Isabel said that the public museum built for her Mother's life's works was too ostentatious. Her Mother's things would not return and were redistributed to more supporting institutions. Further, at the time she disagreed with the public programming during the urban insurrection that has created the charred carcass as the architectural remains left on site. She thought the museum could have been more like the GAM (Gabriela Mistral Centre for Art, Culture and People) who gave its all in support of the just social cause - Constitutional partisan conferences, billboard facade as open air museum for the cause, first aid centres for rioters and barricade materials from the temporary protection against the same before the full welded metal jacket was installed as the new aesthetic of urban credibility in Ground Zero.

A new board for the Museum has been appointed and new rules of engagement have been written for the building formerly known as the Violeta Parra Museum. The board includes the Communist Lord Mayor of Santiago and two places for the University of Chile, who owns the land next door for the expansion plans in the new rules and a spot for the New Ministry of Culture headed up by an Anthropologist who has some new ideas about heritage. The board will curate the rebuilt building as a family affair on behalf of all of Violeta's descendants who happen to be artists and musicians and want a place in the sun in Ground Zero. Is should be called the Pheonix museum but is likely to simply be called Parra (postmodern paralysis). The building will be a museum of urban culture about the Family Parra and include Isabel et al. The bomb-proof retrofit design for the new shell has not been finalised but it will be urban in its aesthetics. Perhaps it could be similar to the school uniform at the National Institute, who holds some of the collection in their extension and education facility, and would serve as a homage to those who have created this new creative centre. A burnt hole in the ground zero that could look like a balaclava as land art.