The Salvador Cabinet obtains the category of property of cultural interest ( Bé Cultural d’Interès Nacional–BCIN )

Abstract

In late 2014 the Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB) received great news regarding the Salvador Collection kept in the center. On December 19, 2014, the Official Gazette of the Government of Catalonia published the recognition of the Salvador Cabinet as a “Heritage of Cultural Interest” (Be Cultural d’Interes Nacional–BCIN) (DOGC, 2014), the maximum level protection provided by the Catalan government to safeguard public heritage. Two months later, on February 5, 2015, this recognition was also published in the Official Gazette of the Government of Spain (BOE, 2014). The declaration of this collection as BCIN responds to the need to protect and disseminate a really valuable and outstanding part of the Catalonian heritage. The Cabinet belonged to the Salvadors (Fig. 1A), a