At the end of Rambla de Prim you get to Museu Blau, a large museum for natural science that is also referred to as the Forum Building. As of now, it forms and architectural landmark and was designed by Swiss architects. It opened in 2004, as part of the Forum of Cultures and has been criticized throughout the construction period regarding several flaws and high costs.
The urban transformation that took place for the Forum of Cultures in 2004, an international cultural event held every three years, erased the last trails of the Camp de la Bota neighborhood, which was formed by shacks for around 4.000 people living there during the sixties.
It was also a military field of shooting by the sea, were more than 1.700 political prisoners were executed after the civil war that took place during the years 1936 to 1939. Dedicated to these events the memorial El Camp de la Bota was built and inaugurated in 1992. At that time, it was being rejected by the Association of Former Political Prisoners, as the inscription said it was dedicated to ‘all victims of the civil war’ and they felt it was impropriate as it didn’t honor specifically those that were executed after the war ended. That’s why the dedication was modified and changed in May 2004 accordingly.
Translated the inscription reads:
“IN MEMORY OF THE REPUBLICAN VICTIMS SHOT IN THIS PLACE DUE TO THE FRANCOIST DICTATORSHIP IN THE YEARS 1939 TO 1952.
That in my years the jewel recommences without erasing any scar of the spirit. O Father of the night, of the sea and of silence, I want peace but I do not want oblivion / Màrius Torres (1942)”
