The President of the Diputación de Alicante, Toni Pérezwanted to witness firsthand the final touches to the process of opening boxes and starting assembly of the next international exhibition which will host the MARQ from the next 26 MarchThe official inauguration day.
The exhibition, which deals with the early kingdoms of prehistoric Europeincludes unpublished pieces and masterpieces of the Bronze AgeSome of them are being exhibited for the first time in Spain.
Entitled "Dynasties", this initiative, which can be visited at the Alicante museum until 13 Octoberis an ambitious project with about 500 valuable objectsincluding a reproduction of Nebra's Disc and part of its treasure. It is the first known representation of the celestial vault in Europe, included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register since 2013.
The selected objects from 20 museums and institutions across EuropeThe following are testimony to the emergence of the first 'warrior' charactersof the evolution of agricultural and livestock farming societies as the foundation of the first states, of extractive activities such as the mining and the development of trades such as metallurgy and the goldsmithing or the constitution of the elites and the ideological control of society.
Toni Pérez praised "the research and dissemination work of the MARQ team, which will bring us closer to the prehistory of our continent in an era that was a decisive turning point in Europe", while assuring that the museum "will once again demonstrate its level of excellence and prestige at an international level and will once again become the epicentre of European culture".
The president said that the most important aspect of this initiative "is the scientific account of years of work, rigour and study, thanks to which we have managed to bring together nearly 500 works through the collaboration of a total of 20 museums".
The event was attended by the director of MARQ, Manuel Olcinathe managing director of the Fundación CV MARQ, José Alberto Cortésand one of the three curators of the show, the archaeologist Juan Antonio López Padilla.
