The Archaeological Museum of Alicante has closed the international exhibition 'Dynasties. The First Kingdoms of Prehistoric Europe' with a balance that has exceeded the number of visitors. 60,700 visits since its inauguration last March. The open days organised last week to bid farewell to this proposal brought together three thousand people at MARQ on 9, 12 and 13 October.
The President of the Diputación de Alicante, Toni PérezThis morning, he visited the Museum to see in situ the dismantling of 'Dynasties', which opened on 26 March and closed on Sunday, and which has been awarded the 'Dynasties' prize. visits by people from different countries. The ranking places the inhabitants of Eastern European countries in first place, followed by those from Great Britain, France, the American continent and the Nordic countries. In terms of the national public, Alicante residents are in first place, followed by people from Madrid, the neighbours of Castilla La Mancha, Murcia, Valencia and Castilla León.
Curated by Juan Antonio López Padillaarchaeologist and exhibition technician at MARQ; Roberto Rischof the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and János DaniThe exhibition has benefited from the collaboration of more than 70 researchers specialising in the study of the Bronze Age from all over Europe, linked to internationally renowned institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany; the Institute of Archaeology in Prague, part of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; the Institute of Archaeology in Nitra, part of the Academy of Sciences of Slovakia; and the Institute of Archaeology in Budapest, an institution of the Academy of Sciences of Hungary, as well as universities such as the Martin Luther University in Slovakia; the Institute of Archaeology of Nitra, belonging to the Slovak Academy of Sciences or the Institute of Archaeology of Budapest, an institution dependent on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as well as universities such as the Martin Luther of Halle in Germany; Miskolc in Hungary; Adam Mickiewicz of Poznan in Poland; Padua in Italy; Queen's of Belfast in Ireland; Autónoma de Barcelona, Granada, Alcalá de Henares and the University of Alicante.
The exhibition has brought together for the first time more than 480 pieces from a total of 20 museums and museum institutions from Spain, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, Portugal and Denmark, which are intended to offer visitors the opportunity to appreciate masterpieces of the Bronze Age craftsmanship from continental Europe.
In addition, the Valencian Community DayThe Provincial Council of Alicante and the MARQ Foundation offered an open day both in the museum and in archaeological sites and monuments that brought together 681 people in the Museum facilities, 129 visitors at the site of La Illeta in El Campello; 47 people at the site of Lucentum in Albufereta and 26 people at the Almohad Tower of Almudaina.