Carmen Álvarez Nogales has been named director of the Sefardí Museum, housed in the Transito Synagogue in Toledo.
The Education, Culture, and Sport Ministry made the announcement on Friday.
Álvarez Nogales, born in 1983, has been working as a curator at the museum, a state-run institution created by Royal Decree in 1964.
She fills the post left vacant by the death last August from cancer of the museum’s director Santiago Palomero Plaza, 62, a respected museologist and expert in Sefardi heritage who had served as director since 2010.
2 comments on “Spain: Carmen Álvarez Nogales named new director of the Sefardi museum in Toledo”
La herencia cultural sefardí es muy rica en todos los aspectos de la vida, además es un orgullo que la directora del Museo Sefardí se apellide Álvarez ya que los Álvarez judíos son orgullosos de su herencia judeo-española.
Visitare un día Toledo, será una experiencia unica para mi. Caminaré sus calles empedradas, sus museos,sinagogas y leere en sus paredes la historia del pasado…