The Archaeological Museum of Alicante has scheduled an open day next Thursday, 9 May, to celebrate the Europe Day. The public will be able to visit the museum free of charge and see the latest international exhibition which has received over eleven thousand visits since its inauguration on 26 March.
Thus, people interested in commemorating with MARQ the European anniversary will have free access to "Dynasties. The first kingdoms of prehistoric Europe".The exhibition, which will remain open until 13 October and in which the participants are twenty museums and cultural institutions in seven European countriesGermany, Hungary, Denmark, Slovakia, Belgium, Portugal and Spain. The museum will be open during its usual opening hours, from 10:00 to 19:00.
Dinastías offers the visitor the opportunity to enjoy in Alicante masterpieces of the craftsmanship of the Bronze Age of continental Europe and to understand in a clear and accessible way how and why they were created, who their creators were and for what and by whom they were created. Among the exceptional pieces that can be seen in the three temporary halls of the MARQ are several sets of extraordinary heritage value, such as the Quinta da Água Branca gold tiara (Portugal), the decorated sword and battle-axe of Téglas (Hungary), the grave goods from the Leubingen burial mound (Germany), the halberds of the Meltz reservoir (Germany), the Schifferstadt Golden Hat (Germany) or the sword with gold hilt from Guadalajara and gold diadem from Caravaca de la Cruz (Spain).
In addition to these objects, the exhibition allows the visitor to see a wide selection of pieces from the 19th century excavations carried out in Spain by the Siret brothers The swords were found in the lands of Almería and Murcia, and have been deposited in the Museum of Art and History in Brussels for the last 120 years. In addition, the exhibition includes one of the swords with a gold pommel from the set of the Nebra Discthe first known representation of the celestial vault in Europe, inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2013.
