The Vélez-Málaga Holy Week Museum hosts the exhibition 'The Yesterday that Endures. 1936-2026' from this Thursday, featuring pieces that survived the destruction 90 years ago. The exhibition will be open until November 29.
The Vélez-Málaga Holy Week Museum, located in the church of Santa María de la Encarnación, opens this Thursday at 19:00 hours the exhibition 'The Yesterday that Endures. 1936-2026', which brings together pieces of brotherhood heritage that survived the destruction of July 1936. The exhibition is organized by the Holy Week Brotherhoods Association in collaboration with the Vélez-Málaga City Council and will be open until November 29.
The exhibition commemorates the 90th anniversary of those events. Between July 21 and 22, 1936, images, thrones, altarpieces, items, documents, and other goods that the Vélez brotherhoods had gathered over centuries disappeared. Not everything was lost: some pieces were preserved in private homes, archives, or outside temples, and these are now on display.
Among the collected pieces are processional tunics and capes embroidered in gold on velvet, banners, sacristan scapulars, sceptres, goldsmithing, polychrome sculptures, rule and account books, photographs, and archival documents. They come from different brotherhoods and were used for both worship and processions; each was saved in a different way, in some cases kept for decades by families.
The presentation of the exhibition was held this Thursday with the participation of the mayor of Vélez-Málaga, Jesús Lupiáñez; the councillor for Culture, Alicia Ramírez; the president of the Museum and Art Commission of the Brotherhood Association, José Miguel Rodríguez Ruiz; and the vice president of that commission, Antonio Ruiz Báez.
“It allows us to approach a part of our history that for a long time we could only know through references and documents,” noted Lupiáñez, who added that “each of these pieces has a value that goes far beyond the object itself, because it speaks to us of generations of people from Vélez, of our brotherhoods, and of a Holy Week that is part of the cultural identity of our city.”
The exhibition can be visited at the Vélez-Málaga Holy Week Museum until November 29.
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