The Archaeological Museum of Alicante continues with its commitment to innovation and the updating of content via the Internet. In this sense, the MARQ's New Technologies Department has developed a new online news serviceas well as a channel open to society in which users can enter articles, photographs or videos made by themselves.
The Member of Parliament for Culture Juan Bautista Roselló today presented these two innovative and user-friendly proposals, that make the cultural centre a more dynamic and participatory space, accessible to all citizens..
On the one hand, the museum has launched the community of users and friends of the museum. tuMARQ. This proposal, which aspires to become a meeting point open to participationallows Internet users to have access to a space to create your own blog and participate in a social network by uploading images and videos related to archaeology –MARQmedia-.
Thanks to this initiative, the The museum's content will grow at the pace of its users.as well as the topics for discussion and study. In addition, as indicated in the welcome article to the platform, it is proposed to the users that they count and include their own audiovisual creations related to their experiences in the MARQ or in the archaeological parks managed by the MARQ, or to become curators of their next visit to the sites or to the cultural centre.
Space MARQreview is another of the museum's commitments. It is an online service aimed at professionals and amateurs in general, which brings the user closer to the latest news from the world of archaeology,museums and historical heritagenot only from the province but also from the rest of Spain and abroad.
Culture, didactics, science and technology, national and international museums and opinion are some of the sections presented in this initiative, which is composed of a system that every 15 minutes scours the Internet globally for news, blog posts or comments on social networks related to the world of history and archaeology in general and to the MARQ and the province of Alicante in particular.
In this sense, Roselló has pointed out that these two new tools make the MARQ a museum for everyone, more dynamic and open to the world of archaeology, its followers and friends, whose lines of work, activities, exhibitions or research can be consulted through its website anywhere in the world. The aim is for citizens to be able to access all kinds of information related to the exhibitions and initiatives developed by the Alicante complex at all times..
These innovative proposals are part of the development and innovation programme launched by the museum during 2012, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary. MARQreview, tuMARQ and MARQmedia are now complementing other initiatives such as the new website of the cultural centrelaunched last May, the digital edition of the Club Llumiq magazine or the recent incorporation of the complex to the didactic project Google Art Project.
The objectives of these new proposals, which can be accessed via the museum's website or through a web browser, are to maintain and improve the centre's online information activities and to make MARQ a point of reference in the world of archaeology and history, aimed at all kinds of audiences.said the deputy for Culture.
