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The exhibition includes documents five photo panels with the various venues that have had originally called 'Antiquities Museum Murcia'
It was opened in 1864, three years before the National Archaeological Museum
The Regional President Alberto Garre, today stressed the high value of the Archaeological Museum of Murcia as "stronghold of the heritage of all Murcia", and that during the century and a half of its history has preserved the cultural historiography of the region.
Garre opened, accompanied by Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, exposure of the 150th anniversary of the Archaeological Museum of Murcia in which a review of the history of the region with more than 200 pieces from the Paleolithic to the century is XIX.
In addition, the exhibition includes fifty-five photo panels document used to know the different venues and halls of this museum.
The opening of this exhibition is the beginning of the celebrations of the International Day of Museums, which are scheduled in different municipalities in the region hundreds of activities to bring the whole of the regional society the rich heritage, artistic and culture of these exhibition spaces.
Among the works included in the anniversary exhibition of the Archaeological Museum is' Hercules passer, "a Roman figurine from the town of Yecla The Torrejones donated by Juan Espuche in 1862, and is part of the origin of what 1864 was called 'Antiquities Museum Murcia', which opened three years before the National Archaeological Museum in 1867.
Also notable for its value and history of a capital Roman large reused in the convent of Murcia Veronicas and recovered shortly before the Civil War by a director of the museum, in addition to solar recovered parts of Murcia during the last 20 years, as a fragment of white marble Roman sarcophagus of the third century.
In addition, the exhibition also takes a tour of the archaeological sites of the site of the Bronze Age of La Bastida de Totana (Martínez Santaolalla excavations in the 40s) and the Iberian site of Cabecico Treasury (directed excavations at the necropolis Cayetano Mergelina and Augusto Fernández Avilés, between 1935 and 1936).
Similarly, it has been selected for this journey through the history of the region a capital of stalks Islamic period recovered during the construction of one of the bomb shelters of the city of Murcia in the Plaza Fontes or a collections of china Cartagena early nineteenth century.
Documents, photographs and activities
Among this documentation in the sample highlights the first inventory of archaeological materials made by Francisco Cánovas Cobeño and report sent Javier Fuentes and Ponte in 1891 the Royal Academy of History about the early Christian finds La Alberca.
You can also observe the minutes of the laying of the foundation stone of the Provincial Palace Archives, Libraries and Museums, in 1940, on Alfonso X the Wise Avenue, later known as House of Culture and now houses the Archaeological Museum of Murcia.
The five photo panels, each with ten images illustrate the different offices: Contrast building (in the Plaza de Santa Catalina), demolished in the 30s;
the Cerdán, now the Museum of Fine Arts Palace Murcia and Provincial Archives, Library and Museum building.
Highlight, for example, photographs that illustrate the state of the permanent exhibition building Cerdan, with the collection of works of art and other objects deposited there by the Board of Seizure during the years of the Civil War, in the task of safeguarding of Historic and Artistic Treasure those years.
Furthermore, it is notable that the Archaeological Museum scheduled for the International Day of children's workshops and performances of dance and music Museums and guided night tours.
These include the Special Workshop 'Autismam: the adventure of knowing'.
Source: CARM
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