The University of Murcia joins the celebration events of the 180th anniversary of the Alfonso X el Sabio Institute with the Commemorative Exhibition of the First Centenary of the University of Murcia, which will be exhibited at the center starting tomorrow, Tuesday, where it will be inaugurated by the Rector José Orihuela at 12:30 a.m.
Created in 1837 as a Provincial Institute of Second Education, it was the third center of its kind founded in Spain.
This center housed the two universities that Murcia had in the nineteenth century as well as the definitive one, inaugurated in its facilities in 1915, and of which the centennial was celebrated three years ago.
The exhibition is curated by Ana Martín Luque and Pascual Vera, responsible for the Communication Service of the UMU, and shows, through several dozen panels, the evolution experienced by this educational center in its one hundred years of life, the venues in the which was located the University of Murcia, until its final installation in the Campus de la Merced and its large extension of Espinardo, as well as the current centers and their history and the evolution of the university collective of the last decades Teachers, students and Administration Staff and Services-, or the gradual incorporation of women into all types of studies and their integration into the world of work as a teacher or PAS.
It also includes, through the images of the rectoral gallery, the fourteen rectors who have held the maximum responsibility in the center;
the doctors Honoris Causa, or the origin and history of the Social Council.
The exhibition also reveals the origin, evolution and current status of research, its libraries, publications, culture, artistic heritage, sports, the university press and the colleges.
Source: Universidad de Murcia