MARQ's international exhibition The Kingdom of Salt.7.000 years of Hallstatt history, has been visited by more than 10,700 people since its inauguration last year friday 14 June. About 250 pieces from the Museum of Natural History Vienna make up this exhibition, which will remain at the Alicante centre. until 7 January 2014.
The last weeks of last month have been those that have registered the more visits. Thus, between Tuesday 16th and Sunday 21st July, 1,800 people visited the MARQ to see the contents of this exhibition at first hand, while from 23rd to 28th July, 1,553 people visited the MARQ.
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The influx of the public has been reinforced by the various playful and didactic activities that the museum has organised on the occasion of this exhibition. In this respect, the most noteworthy are the dramatised visits which, since 2 July, have taken place every year. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the afternoonat 7.30 p.m.
Through this exhibition, the Archaeological Museum of Alicante brings the public closer to the secrets of the Hallstatt cultureThe Iron Age, a civilisation that developed in northern Austria between the Bronze and Iron Ages, made mineral salt a more precious commodity than gold. A deer antler spike dating to between 5060-4800 B.C., a transport bag 13th century BC. made from cowhide or a bronze deep bowl The most outstanding pieces in this exhibition, which is being presented for the first time in the Vienna Museum, are some of the most outstanding pieces in the 7th century BC, decorated with the figure of a cow on the handle, and which are among the most outstanding pieces in this exhibition, which is being presented for the first time in the Vienna Museum. first time in Spain.
The exhibition set-up also reserves a space in which the importance of salt in the historical evolution of the province is highlighted.from its origins as a basic substance for the preservation of foodstuffs to the different uses given to it during the Iberian and Roman periods.
