As part of the bid to restore the local building known as “sa Senieta” and equip it to house the island's future museum, the Formentera Council reports that administration officials will use this Friday's plenary session to introduce a plan to grant sa Senieta use rights to the Govern balear.

Once approval for the plan is secured, President Jaume Ferrer and Fanny Tur, the minister of culture, participation and sport in the Balearics, will put their signatures on a bilateral pact by which the Council, sa Senieta's owner, grants the ministry under Tur's charge full rights to use the building at no cost. In turn, the regional ministry pledges to restore and upgrade sa Senieta to equip it as an exhibition space and Formentera's future museum.

The handoff, which enters into force with the agreement's signing, will remain effective until December 31, 2033 and may be extended an additional five years after that. Once the handoff is complete, upgrades and maintenance work will begin under the watch of the Govern balear's Conselleria de Cultura, Participació i Esports.

All costs associated with the project —honoraria, taxes, charges, levies, et cetera— will be paid for by the regional government. Likewise, the Council, which will retain ownership of sa Senieta, must give its say-so before any work on the building can take place.

Future museum network
In accordance with the provisions of legislation passed December 21, 1998, sa Senieta is the only local construction included in Formentera's catalogue of Balearic historical heritage sites—a clear sign of the building's importance to cultural heritage on the island.

In addition to sa Senieta, which will accommodate the Formentera museum's permanent collection and other general services for the public, the island's future network of museums will include two other spaces: La casa de Can Ramon, home to the island's ethnographical collection, and the plot adjacent to Sant Francesc's historical cemetery (the "Fossar Vell"), which will be equipped to hold archives, a specialised library, conference hall, exhibition space, materials drop-off and reservation point and research lab.

The plan is part of Formentera's bid to create a premier “museum circuit” for islanders and visiting tourists that is in line with the Balearic Islands' so-called “Museum Law”.

The Formentera Council's department of patrimony announces the creation of a set of guiding principles for Formentera's Arxiu d'Imatge i So (Image and Sound Archive). The document contains working strategies to find,, research, study and spread the images and sounds that make up Formentera's documentary legacy.

The plan's drafting was stipulated in the island's 2017-2019 strategy for management of cultural heritage. Included in the plan is an organisational model for day-to-day tasks at the AISF, as well as recommendations for ongoing operations, priority actions and clear steps to succeeding in objectives, projects and assorted activities.

The two-year plan establishes a vision for the long-term and effective functioning of the AISF. The first part of the scheme is to prepare and vote on the AISF guiding principles. Objectives include cultivating knowledge about Formentera's cultural heritage, showcasing it as an asset to the community, and offering islanders and associations training in order to shape attitudes about cultural heritage on the island.

According to culture and patrimony secretary Susana Labrador, the AISF guidelines mean islanders can expect to see new hubs of culture and art and museums filling out the island's landscape of cultural institutions. Content and resources will be needed if these institutions are to gain currency with visitors, whether or not they actually live on the island. Labrador asserted research and outreach would be necessary to get the new network off the ground, presaging centres of research and outreach which would be lively and dynamic.