The MARQ has surpassed the figure of two and a half million visitors since its inauguration by Queen Sofia in May 2002, a new fact to add to its already impressive long and distinguished career as a museum. The Vice-President and Member of Parliament for Culture, Julia ParraHe expressed his satisfaction "for this achievement, which is undoubtedly the merit of the entire team of professionals who have managed to make the MARQ an exemplary museum, with proposals that manage to arouse the interest of the public in Alicante and in many other places in Spain and beyond our borders".
In addition to its rich permanent collectionIn its three temporary exhibition halls, MARQ offers visitors the opportunity to take an exciting journey through history. first class international proposalsMany of them in collaboration with the most prestigious museums in the world and always with the premise of making the museum a cultural space of all and for all. People from all over Spain, especially from Madrid, Murcia and Andalusia, as well as from many corners of the world, especially English, French and Eastern European citizens, have had the opportunity to enjoy the extraordinary historical and artistic heritage that the centre treasures.
The museum has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, including the 2004 award of the European Museum of the Year Award and the fact that, in April 2016, it was recognised by the magazine National Geographic as one of the top ten must-see museums in Spain. In September 2018, it was the first museum in our country to obtain the Q for Tourism Quality Certification in the UNE 302002 standard.
Currently, and until 19 April, you can visit the exhibition Idols. Millenarian gazes'.. A rigorous scientific production that stems from the collaboration of MARQ with the Regional Archaeological Museum of the Community of Madrid (SEA) and which brings together 226 pieces from 20 museums in Spain and Portugal. The bulk of the exhibition is made up of articles in stone, bone and other materials that evoke the human body and face, and which had their peak of use and elaboration between the second half of the 4th and the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. Since its inauguration on 29 January, more than 16,000 people have already visited Ídolos.
The museum's next proposal will take place in June with The Metals of al-Andalus'.which is currently on display at the National Archaeological Museum to great public acclaim, and in November will open its doors to what will undoubtedly be the most important exhibition in our country, The Terracotta Warriors of Xi'an. Eternal Guardians of the First Emperor'..