Concepción Blanco Mínguez (1907–1994) was an archaeologist and ónBlancoMídirector of the Archaeological Museum of Cádiz from 1932 to 1977.
Biography
She studied Philosophy and Letters (History section) at the Central University of Madrid, graduating in 1930. After joining the Superior Facultative Body of Archives, Libraries and Museums, in 1932 she became the director of the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Cádiz which implied being an Excavation Inspector throughout the province. In parallel to this position that she occupied until her retirement, she was a professor at the Columela Institute, where she was the first woman to work as a teacher, where she taught from 1933 to 1943 as well as at the Distance University. On an interim basis, she also occupied the director of the archive of the Treasury Delegation and was a member of the Adolfo de Castro Chair of the Institute of Cadiz Studies and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Cádiz.
She retired in 1977 but did not leave her post at the museum until she was finally replaced by the new director, Ramón Corzo Sánchez in 1978.
She died in Cádiz in 1994, at the age of 87.
Publications
"El Museo Arqueológico de Cádiz". En Revista Geográfica Española, 13. (1943) "El tesoro del Cortijo de Évora". En Archivo Español de Arqueología. 50-57.(1959) "Memorias del Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Cádiz". (1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947). En Memorias de los Museos Arqueológicos Provinciales, Madrid. "El mosaico de 'Marchenilla' (Jimena de la Frontera, Cádiz)". En Noticiario Arqueológico Hispánico, VIII-IX. 190–192. (1964-1965) "Nuevas piezas fenicias del Museo Arqueológico de Cádiz". En Archivo Español de Arqueología. 50–61. (1970)
Acknowledgments
On March 7, 1994, an act was organized in her memory organized by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Cádiz, which was later published.
References
Bibliography
s.a (1994) A Concepción Blanco Mínguez, in memoriam. Boletín del Museo de Cádiz, 6:5 vvaa (1994) Acto en memoria de Doña Concepción Blanco, Cádiz. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Cádiz.