The exhibition 'Idols. Millenarian gazes'. has been awarded the Best museology work, Best international project, Best catalogue and Better transport of cultural property heritage. These awards are presented by the Associação Portuguesa de Museologia (APOM) to the exhibition works carried out in 2021.
The Vice-President and Member of Parliament for Culture, Julia ParraHe expressed his satisfaction "for the recognition of an international exhibition promoted by the MARQ, which began its journey in 2021, first in Alicante and then in Madrid and Lisbon, and in all the museums where it has been, it has been a great success".
The award-winning exhibition is an initiative of the Archaeological Museum of Alicante and the C.V. MARQ Foundation which has had the collaboration of the Regional Archaeological Museum of the Community of Madrid (MAR) and the National Museum of Archaeology of Portugal (MNA).
The decision of the competition and the official award ceremony APOM 2022 was held on 26 and 27 May at the Military Museum and the Amadora Academy in Lisbon, with a large number of Portuguese authorities and the Spanish ambassador to Spain attending the gala. Marta Betanzos Roigwho also received the International Cooperation Award, which this year went to the Spanish Embassy in Portugal.
Idolswhich finally competed in five categories has won four of the awards.. The Transport of Cultural Property has recognised the work carried out in the collection and return of more than 250 pieces from the 28 lending museums in Spain and Portugal to the MNA headquarters in Lisbon and the subsequent return to each of them. The award for the best museography has valued the impressive staging at the MNA Exhibition Hall in the former Jerónimos Monastery in Belém.
The awards for Best International Project and Best Catalogue also recognise the great effort made by the international team composed of professionals from Spain and Portugalbelonging to the participating museums based in Alicante, Alcalá de Henares and Lisbon.
The Associação Portuguesa de Museologia (APOM), the promoter of the awards, was founded in 1965 as the first professional organisation linked to museums to be founded in Portugal. Today it has around two hundred individual members and a dozen institutional members.
The exhibition 'Idols. Miradas Milenarias' brought together in Lisbon more than 250 pieces from 28 museums in Spain and Portugal. It is a set of furniture of genuine and schematic representations of the human body and faceThey are concentrated in the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula and constitute the best evidence of beliefs shared by groups from the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods between 3300 and 2500 BC.
The exhibition has been curated by Drs. Primitiva Bueno RamírezProfessor of Prehistory at the University of Alcalá de Henares, and Jorge A. Soler DíazCurator of Prehistory at MARQ, Director of Exhibitions of the C.V. MARQ Foundation and Director of the MUBAG.
