The 13th edition of the programme 'Un Hospital de Cuento'. from Archaeological Museum of Alicante has started these days in the Hospital General Universitario Doctor Balmis to bring archaeology and history closer to long-stay children.
Once again this year, the MARQ Foundation in collaboration with the Paediatrics Service and the Pedagogical Unit Hospital and with the Institute for Health and Biomedical Research of Alicante, Isabial, has launched this initiative "which offers a common work space for the benefit of the children admitted to the hospital to make their stay more pleasant", explained the deputy of Culture, Juan de Dios Navarro.
In this way, every Tuesday until next June, monitors of the Didactics, Accessibility and Social Responsibility Unit of the CV MARQ Foundation. will develop different activities in the Hospital Educational Unit to teach the history of our province and bring the temporary exhibitions of the MARQ closer to children through talks, educational workshops, games, storytelling and dramatised visits.
During this academic year 2024-25, the theme will be related to the temporary exhibition 'Cities of Light. Ákra Leuké, Lucentum, Laqant. Alicante Ancient' that will be inaugurated in the MARQ mid-December, to give them to know the history of Alicante through research carried out in the last few years thirty years at the Lucentum site. In addition, this year, among the objectives of the project is the making a storywhose main character, Chispita, will travel around Lucentum. A story that can be purchased at the MARQ shop and whose profits will go to research into childhood cancer.
One of the objectives of the project 'A fairytale hospital' is that all children in the children and adolescents The project is part of the many projects that have been carried out in the HGUA, and especially those with illnesses that require a long stay, have the opportunity to continue learning and broadening their knowledge of the history and archaeological heritage of the province. This project is part of the numerous Social Responsibility programmes which the MARQ Foundation carries out with different associations and institutions in the province and whose aim is to improve the quality of life of the participants through culture.
