The Archaeological Museum of Alicante will participate together with other European museums in the organisation of a travelling exhibition on the Iron Age. This will be the first project to be developed by the museum platform. European Exhibitions Network-EEN- whose representatives are meeting these days at the MARQ.
All the museums that make up this organisation, including, in addition to the MARQ, the Landes Museen in Linz, Austria; the Mediterranean Museum of Stockholm; the Palatinate History Museum in the German town of Speyer; and the Drents Museum in Assenin Holland, contain among their collections pieces from that period, which has motivated the future organisation of this joint exhibition.
The President of the Alicante Provincial CouncilLuisa Pastor met this morning with representatives of this organisation of museums, which is looking for the international cooperation between cultural complexes of historical and archaeological scope through theexchange of information and own funds.
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The event was also attended by the deputy for Culture Juan Bautista Rosellóthe technical director of MARQ Manuel Olcinathe director of the Linz Museum in Austria Peter Assmann and the representative of the Drens Museum in Assen, the Netherlands, Michel van Maarseveen.
Luisa Pastor predicted a great future for this European museum organisation. "At MARQ we are going to work to extend this project, to which we are committed, to the rest of the Spanish museums interested, especially those in our province.".
During the meeting, the possibility of organising another joint exhibition on the Classical World was also raised, in which, in addition to the centres that make up the platform, the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Peter Assmann underlined the importance of this type of initiative ".as they allow museums to come together to strengthen culture and promote European history.".
