The Archaeological Museum of Alicante in its new international exhibition adventure, it is committed to discovering the Mayan culture and unveil the enigma of the lost cities of this civilisation, as well as the daily living conditions of the different sectors of this population that inhabited the Yucatan Peninsula. With an interesting tour of the three temporary halls of the MARQ, in which there will be about 200 piecesThe visitor will be able to learn about the mesoamerican archaeology and to contemplate such outstanding vestiges as a sculpture of a man with jaguar attributesa JADE MASK or various trails, plates and censers.
The President of the Provincial Government, César SánchezThis morning, he presented the exhibition in the Simón Bolívar Hall of the Linares Palace in Madrid, accompanied by the Guatemalan Ambassador to Spain, Fernando Molina. In this enclave, Sánchez has highlighted the quality of this international collaborative project that ".It is a unique opportunity to contemplate pieces that will not be exhibited in Europe for a long time and that will allow us to get closer to a culture that even today still holds many mysteries and unknowns.".
The event was also attended by the curators of the exhibition, Nikolai Konrad and Miguel Riveraas well as the managing director and the technical director of MARQ, José Alberto Cortés and Manuel Olcinarespectively, or the director of the Ruta Maya Foundation, Sofia Catalina Paredesamong other authorities.
The exhibition 'Mayas. The Enigma of the Lost CitiesThe collection is a major collection of pieces from the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of Guatemala (MUNAE) and two Guatemalan institutions, the Ruta Maya Foundation and the Neria Herrera Collection of the Museum Juan Antonio Valdés. Many of the objects that will be on display in Alicante between 25 MayThe exhibition will be inaugurated on the opening day of the exhibition, and on 7 January 2018never before exhibited in Spain. In addition to these, and as a complement, there are others from European venues of recognised prestige, such as the Museum of Ethnology Berlin or the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum Cologne.
This new proposal from the Alicante museum is a project that arose from the EEN (European Exhibition Network), a technical platform which allows the exchange of information and the proliferation of international exhibitions and in which the MARQ has been involved in order to bring this exhibition, which is being developed in collaboration with the Drents Museum in Assen and the Palatinate Historical Museum Speyer.
The Guatemalan ambassador to Spain has pointed out that ".An exhibition of this magnitude is important because of the fascination of their legacy and the knowledge that the Mayas had of mathematics, astronomy and agriculture. The Guatemalans are proud that the exhibition is coming to Alicante.".
Of the three temporary rooms that will occupy this international screening, the first will be dedicated to the creation of the Mayan worldThe second will deal with the splendour and collapse of this culture and the third will focus on the men and women of maize. The various explanatory panels that will be distributed throughout the rooms will shed light on such topics as the universe, nature, rites and myths, life, agriculture or power..
The entities of ASISA,CajaMurcia Foundation andLa Caixa collaborate in this new cultural proposal, which will feature a complex and evocative montage by room and theme. In addition, and for the first time, National Geographic Spain is involved in an exhibition project with MARQ.
In addition, the Noble Room of the MARQ Library will host a specific presentation on the Spanish archaeological missions at Guatemala who, since the 1980s, have been dedicated to the discovery of new findings. Since then, the University of Valencia has been at the forefront of this expedition, which is currently focusing its research work on the site of La Blanca.
The President of the Provincial Government has encouraged the citizens to visit the "a museum open to society and inclusive, which is also committed to research, publication and educational activities, without forgetting that we have positioned ourselves as a leading cultural centre on a scientific level.".
This international exhibition coincides with the celebration of the 85th anniversary of the museum and 15th anniversary of MARQ and it will be accompanied by a large number of complementary activities as workshops, presentations, round tables and lecture series in order to disseminate and unveil some of the best-kept mysteries of this civilisation. It will also publish a didactic guidewill be developed street promotional actions and will be held open days.
Finally, Manuel Olcina pointed out that the MARQ has developed its own structure and expository discourseHe has highlighted the splendour of this culture, with a complex religion and a highly hierarchical society, "...and has also stressed the importance of a culture with a complex religion and a highly hierarchical society".whose legacies we want to transmit from the Alicante museum with maximum rigour.".
For their part, the curators emphasised the importance of this exhibition, the academic and scientific work involved and the need to continue supporting the study of majística.
