The managing director of the Marq Foundation, José Alberto Cortés, and the director of Exhibitions and Dissemination of the Museum, Jorge Soler, will participate this weekend in the Italian city of Cagliari in the international meeting "Civilisation and the Mediterranean". The aim of the conference is to promote a new reflection on the relations between the cultures that throughout history have contributed to the design of the geography of the Mediterranean Sea. The possibility of producing an exhibition on Prehistory and the Bronze Age under the suggestive title of "Civilisation and the Mediterranean" will be discussed. The origins of the Mediterranean. This is a project that the Italian government is opening up to the participation of all the museums present and which will be inaugurated in 2019 at the Museum of Cagliari, studying not only the pieces and the museographic discourse, but also the opportunity to take it to other museums interested in exhibiting it.
This meeting has been organised by the Department of Tourism, Crafts and Trade of Sardinia in collaboration with the Museum of Sardinia, the Italian Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities and Tourism, the Municipality of Cagliari and the Sardinia Foundation. The most important cultural institutions and museums of the Mediterranean arc, such as the Marq (the only Spanish museum present in this forum), the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, the Museum of Prehistory and Ancient History of Berlin or the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, will have a voice in it.