November 24, 2023.- The National Museum of Sculpture, a state museum under the Ministry of Culture, becomes the first Spanish museum to be established as Punto Violeta. It is an instrument promoted by the Ministry of Equality to involve the whole of society in the fight against male violence and to extend the necessary information to know how to act in a case of violence against women.
As a public body, from today the National Sculpture Museum has in all its headquarters an adhesive badge with a QR code linked to the ‘Violet Point Guide to act against Male Violence’, which aims to point out that this space is a safe place for victims, where they can receive information and accompaniment if they need it.
The Subdelegate of the Government in Valladolid, Alicia Villar; the Deputy Director General of State Museums, Mercedes Roldán; and the Director of the National Museum of Sculpture, Alejandro Nuevo, were in charge of presenting the initiative today.
In order to fulfill this new task, in coordination with the Subdelegation of the Government in Valladolid, the National Sculpture Museum has offered its staff training sessions during the month of November to identify situations of gender violence.
In this way, the museum advances in compliance with one of the lines of its Strategic Plan 2023-2026, which includes as one of its specific projects the development of the gender strategy carried out by the institution.
The National Museum of Sculpture thus joins other institutions, companies and bodies that already act as Punto Violeta, consolidating an increasingly wide network in the city of Valladolid.
What is a Violet Dot?
Violet Dots are “safe” places where a woman can go in case she feels harassed, pressured or if she is a victim of aggression, and where she can report aggression and clarify doubts.
It is an instrument promoted since 2021 by the Ministry of Equality to involve the whole of society in the fight against gender violence and to spread, in a massive way, the information necessary to know how to act in a case of male violence.
Male violence is not a private matter, but is a structural and social problem of the first order. Therefore, the involvement of the whole of society is necessary to put an end to it: each person must be an active agent in the fight against violence, helping to detect it and accompanying the victims.