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Changes at Museo Roca: Carolina Carman resigns, Fernando Gómez takes charge pending competition
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Changes at Museo Roca: Carolina Carman resigns, Fernando Gómez takes charge pending competition

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Carolina Carman resigned as director of Museo Roca after winning a competition to lead the National Judiciary Archive.
  • Historian and teacher Fernando Gómez, the museum’s general project coordinator, will handle administrative affairs until a permanent director is selected.
  • The Culture Secretariat said Museo Roca will be included in the second round of public competitions for directors of national museums.

After nine years at the helm of Museo Roca, historian Carolina Carman is leaving to become director general of the National Judiciary Archive. She won a competition organized by the Supreme Court in December 2024. Historian and archivist Mariana Nazar will join her as deputy director.

Fernando Gómez, a historian and teacher who currently coordinates the museum’s general projects, will take charge at Museo Roca. He will not hold the title of interim director. Instead, the Culture Secretariat said he will be “in charge of the office,” handling administrative matters while the institution awaits a permanent appointment.

I took up the post in August 2017, after taking part in the competition opened for directors of national museums in the first round.

— Carolina CarmanCarman recalled how she became director of Museo Roca.

María Paula Zingoni, national director of museums and heritage management, will support the arrangement. She already oversees the Museo Histórico Nacional and the Costume Collection. The Culture Secretariat also said Museo Roca would form part of the second round of public competitions for directors of national museums. The first call, covering five museums, opened days earlier.

It was a museum with its doors closed.

— Carolina CarmanShe described the institution’s condition when she assumed leadership.

Carman is preparing a record of her work at Museo Roca. She took up the post in August 2017 after winning a place in the first competition for national museum directors. Before that, she researched museums, wrote a thesis on the history of the Museo Histórico Nacional and worked at the National Library on exhibitions and curatorial projects.

She said the museum initially lacked narrative lines, educational programs for the community and a regular exhibition program. It was effectively a museum with its doors closed. During her tenure, the team developed two main narrative lines, including one that placed Julio A. Roca in dialogue with Argentine history from 1880 to 1914. The museum also adopted a federal focus and worked with universities and municipalities in the Pampas and Patagonia, alongside audiovisual productions published on its YouTube channel.

Our task from 2017 was to establish two major narrative lines.

— Carolina CarmanCarman explained the museum’s approach during her tenure.
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