One of the projects that will change the Madrid we know today is Madrid Nuevo Norte. And, in fact, it is already changing it: the Madrid City Council has announced today that, on the occasion of its construction, the EMT Museum of Madrid will be forced to move its current headquarters -open to the public since 2016- to another location.
The move will take place from the EMT Madrid Operations Center facilities in Fuencarral (Calle de Mauricio Legendre, 38) and will be destined for Madrid Río: the new EMT Museum will be erected between the streets of Duque de Tovar, San Epifanio and Paseo de los Melancólicos.
It is one of the plots in the Mahou-Calderón area, with an area of 4,460 square meters (slightly less than the current 5,000 square meters).
What will the new EMT Museum be like?
This new space will fulfill the same function of housing the EMT’s heritage: from historic buses to old bus shelters, models, streetcar and bus seats, plans, maps and “other objects linked to Madrid’s urban surface transport”, according to the Madrid City Council.
The design of the new EMT Museum will be carried out through a public tender that “will guarantee the participation of as many architects as possible and the quality of the architectural drafts presented”. To this end, the EMT itself will draw up the bidding conditions by consensus with the Association of Architects of Madrid (COAM).
On the other hand, the information provided so far by the Madrid City Council does not specify dates for the tender or for the opening of this new museum.
What is foreseen in the agreement signed last week by the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the dean of the COAM, Sigfrido Herráez, is “the mounting of an exhibition at the headquarters of the College of Architects that will include the results of the competition”.