The MARQ, the Archaeological Museum of Alicante, dependent on the Provincial Council of Alicante, has been recognised with the Classical World 2024 prize awarded by the Valencian Community Section of the Spanish Society of Classical Studies, SEEC, for the educational projects and programmes, publications and teaching guides adapted to the different school stages promoted by the MARQ CV Foundation.
The candidacy for this award was presented by several secondary school teachers from the Comunitat for the defence and dissemination of classical culture by the Fundación CV MARQ to society as a whole and in particular to the educational community. The jury of the awards, which met on 8 May 2024, unanimously awarded the Classical World 2024 prize to MARQ and to Juan José Chao Fernández, PhD in Classical Philology, and the Ars Brevis prize to Michel Koven, as well as recognising retired secondary school Classics teachers in 2023.
The jury of the awards, presented on 27 June after the SEEC-Comunitat Valenciana Members' Assembly, held at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Valencia, recognised with this award the projects, educational programmes, publications and teaching guides adapted to the different school stages from infants to secondary school in the presentation of its permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, such as the recent Etruscans, Gladiators, Warriors of Xi'an and the current Dynasties exhibition. It has also highlighted the quality of its informative activities for all audiences with historical recreations, guides and adapted and dramatised visits, teacher training courses, conferences, seminars and meetings, among others, programmed by the Didactics, Accessibility, Club Llumiq and Social Responsibility Unit of the CV MARQ Foundation.
Founded in 1954, the Spanish Society for Classical Studies (SEEC) is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to promote and disseminate classical studies in all aspects, to collaborate with national and foreign institutions that cultivate or foster these same studies and to defend their legitimate scientific and cultural interests.
In order to promote the study of Latin, Greek and classical culture, the SEEC maintains links with the departments of Classical Philology of several universities in Spain, as well as with secondary and high schools. It has twenty-two sections: Aragón, Asturias and Cantabria, Baleares, Cádiz, Canarias, Castilla-La Mancha, Cataluña, Córdoba, Extremadura, Galicia, Granada-Almería-Jaén, La Rioja, León, Madrid, Málaga, Murcia, Navarra, País Vasco, Salamanca, Sevilla-Huelva, Comunitat Valenciana and Valladolid, and a federation, the Federación Andaluza de Estudios Clásicos. This 2024 edition is the first edition of the awards with a regional scope, after the integration of the provincial sections in the SEEC-Comunitat Valenciana.
