The Delegation of the Government in Ceuta opened a permanent Museum of Missed Warnings this morning, converting its entire headquarters into a walk-through exhibit where every intelligence notice received before July 30 is displayed under a brass plaque reading «Conversation». The museum's first visitor was the delegate himself, who walked the halls for six hours and emerged to declare the collection «educational».
Admission is free, but a curfew now applies to all staff: no one may leave the building between midnight and six until they have personally reclassified every warning in the archive as a casual chat. The head of the cabinet, Gonzalo Sanz, resigned on Friday and immediately took a job as the museum's chief curator, a post he describes as «the logical next step».
The museum's centerpiece is a reconstructed eleven-minute phone call, staged live every hour by two actors in period suits. Visitors are handed a printed guide that explains the CNI «never estimated how many people would actually mobilize», a sentence the guide repeats on every page. A separate wing, the Hall of Denials, features a looping recording of the delegate insisting he knew nothing, played at a volume loud enough to be heard from the Moroccan border.
By evening, dozens of Ceutans had lined up outside to walk through the exhibit, while the Foreign Ministry in Rabat issued a statement asking why the museum had not returned the migrants who entered on July 30. The Delegation replied that the question was «outside the exhibition's scope» and extended opening hours to midnight.