Eloísa del Alisal
Since 2008 Eloísa del Alisal has served as the Director of the Museo Memoria de Andalucía, which has been recognized both internationally and nationally. It has received special mention EMYA 2011 because of its large educational program, honourable mention of the Education and Museum Award of Ibermuseos 2011, and merit to the educational work of the Consejería de Educación of the Junta de Andalucía 2010.
Eloísa is also the cofounder of Cultunet.com, a website for culture professionals and a project of the OEI (Ibero-American states organization). Its social network serves more than sixty thousand professionals of culture. Additionally, she is the editor of g+c, the only Spanish-language magazine that focuses on cultural arts management.
Throughout her career, she has carried out work in the culture, communication, and education fields with different cultural institutes: Technician of Visual Arts and Cultural Management at the headquarters of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid (2005–2008) in coordination with the International Centers Network; Cultural Manager at the Punto de Contacto Cultural (Point of Cultural Contact), Information Office of the Cultural Programme 2000 of the European Commission at the Spanish Cultural Ministry (2004–2005); Cultural Communication at the Cerralbo Museum (2003) and MNCARS (National Museum Art Center Reina Sofia) (2002). She has cooperated with other entities and cultural companies such as Fundación Juan March, Marco, Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid and ARCO, contemporaneous art fair of Madrid, among others.
She regularly gives classes about museology and cultural management at several universities and centers–University of Madrid, European Institute for Design, University of Salamanca, I’Art, and Vanderbilt University. She is a graduate of Art History, UCM; postgraduate in Art and Communication, UCM; Direction and Management of Cultural Institutions, IESE; Master’s in Museology and Exhibitions, UCM; Master’s in Cultural Management at the Business School CESMA; and Doctorate in Contemporaneous Art History, investigating art collection in the twentieth century.