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The MARQ has closed the year 2022 marked by the recovery of visitors. Nearly 160,000 people have visited the museum, of which 101,862 have toured the international exhibition. "Gladiators. Heroes of the Coliseum".which has become the second most visited exhibition in the history of the cultural centre, after "The Beauty of the Body" in 2009.
The Vice-President and Member of Parliament for Culture, Julia ParraShe expressed her satisfaction with the results achieved. The provincial director acknowledged that "it has been a challenge to surpass even the level of visits prior to the pandemic, an achievement that we have to thank our public and the interest aroused by a high level of programming that includes international exhibitions as outstanding as Gladiators and hundreds of cultural proposals of an educational and recreational nature developed thanks to the excellent work of the entire MARQ team".
During these twelve months, other initiatives have also been developed, such as the travelling exhibition of the province's castles, "Guardianes de Piedra" to Rojalesafter passing through Villena, Guardamar, Xixona, Orihuela, Crevillente, Calpe, La Vila, Cocentaina, Callosa, Monforte, Torrevieja and Petrer. Its next destination will be Benidorm in February 2023.
Likewise, MARQ has promoted the proposal dedicated to the Dama de Elche on the occasion of the 125th Anniversary of its discoveryIn collaboration with the Association of the Royal Order of the Lady of Elche, in 1897, "The Travelling Lady", currently on display at the Museum of Archaeology and History of Elche until next April. In Orihuela, the project "Signs of Identity" will remain on permanent display in the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art of Orihuela as a room dedicated to the origins of Christianity in our land.
In collaboration with the Banco Sabadell Foundation and the National Museum of Portugal, the Sala Noble of the MARQ Library has also hosted this year 2022 the exhibition International "The Atlantic warrior: symbols of power?The exhibition, on show from 18 May to 23 October. An exhibition with three Portuguese national treasuresThey are the maximum representatives of the Castreña culture, which developed in the northwest of the peninsula for more than a millennium.
On the other hand, "Etruscans. The dawn of Rome". was another of MARQ's temporary exhibitions, extended until 20 March 2022 with a total of 77,478 visitors and organised in collaboration with, among others, the MAF-Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze and the Museo Etrusco Guarnacci di Volterra. The exhibition was complemented by "Etruscan Traces in Alicante", which highlighted the cultural vestiges of this ancient Mediterranean civilisation in the province, with the collaboration of the Guardamar del Segura Town Council and the MAG, the Archaeological Museum of Guardamar del Segura, the Town Council of La Vila Joiosa and the Vila Museu, the Town Council of Xàbia and the "Soler Blasco" Municipal Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum.
The MARQ foyer also hosts, "The Knight of Ifach. The decline of a medieval city".The result of the work carried out by the Marq's research team at the medieval site of Pobla de Ifach in Calp. An exhibition that offers a fragment of wall with important data on the history and society that inhabited in the 14th century the area that today occupies this enclave of Calp.
The 2022 closure of the museum, sites and monuments under the management of the Fundación CV MARQ provides the following data on the number of visitors:
MARQ Museum 158,194 people
Lucentum archaeological site in Alicante: 9,564 people
La Illeta dels Banyets site in El Campello: 12,714 people
Almohad Tower of Almudaina: 1.244 people
Cova de l'Or in Beniarrés: 534 people
Pla de Petracos: 541 persons
