The Archaeological Museum of Alicante is presiding these days at the German city of Speyer the sixth working meeting of the platform European Exhibition Network (EEN)The aim of this organisation is to promote the exchange of exhibitions, projects and ideas between the different institutions that are members of it.
During the meeting, the delegation from MARQ, which has held the secretariat of the EEN since January 2014, presented the project of a website for the group and has proposed holding a international meeting of museums, which would take place in Alicante in April 2015, to address current trends and problems in the realisation of exhibitions in Europe, looking for projects to be implemented jointly by the member museums of the organisation.
The head of exhibitions at the archaeological museum, Jorge Soler, who is part of the Alicante delegation, emphasised that "MARQ intends to further develop this policy of exchanges, as well as to pursue joint projects that will enable it to maintain its European vocation". and recalled, in this respect, that one of the main pieces in the Alicante museum, the The hand of a bronze sculpture found at Lucentum is found in the in the Drents Museum from the Dutch city of Assen.
The meeting, held at the Palatinate Historical Museum Speyerrepresentatives of the Drents Museum, the Drents Museum, the Landesmuseum Linz (Austria), from State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Germany) and the Liechtenstein Museum. The Linz museum has launched a proposal for an exhibition involving all members of the ENN and focusing on the cultural achievements of Europe around 700 BC.
