Interview in the “Ser Minero” space, on Cadena Ser León, about the 20th Century Poster Exhibition

Fraternidad-Muprespa is counting on the collaboration of the media in its task of disseminating the Exhibition “Prevention Posters of the 20th Century” at its new stop: the Museum of Steel and Mining of León. 

There are already around fifty news items that have been published in different media in the province and also at the regional level about the exhibition. To publicize the characteristics of this Exhibition in more depth, Cadena Ser León yesterday called on its program “Ser Minero” to Natalia Morán, director of the Fraternidad-Muprespa Delegation in Ponferrada, Antonio José Millán, director of the AXA chair of occupational risk prevention and curator of the exhibition, from the AXA Foundation, and Roberto Fernández, director of the Museum. 

Among the three interviewees, they made known the importance of the topic covered by this important exhibition which, as Morán explained, is part of the events of the VII Prevention Week of trying to achieve a world without accidents,” added Morán.

Rodríguez pointed out that for the Museum the date of April 28 is also very important and brings together preventive activities every year. Therefore, when he met Antonio José Millán last summer, he knew how important it would be to have the exhibition in the city of León, and specifically in its Museum. 

Millán, for his part, highlighted the attractiveness of the posters' route but above all their preventive function, given that a large part of the population was illiterate in the first third of the last century and much information reached them through illustrations. “There are posters alluding to pension systems that are authentic works of art with many messages that are still in force today, they have not lost their essence, although the message and how it is transmitted has evolved.” 

The works gathered in the exhibition are dated between 1905 and the 1970s. With a cumulative route of 30,000 kilometers and an audience of around ten million people, the 48 posters, reproductions of the La Retroografía collection, have already been seen in 37 locations in 23 different provinces.