Dr. Nina Rezaei, Head of Exhibitions at the MNI, enjoying the last day of the exhibition at the MARQ of Iran. Cradle of Civilisations
A total of 101,108 people have visited the international exhibition "Iran. Cradle of Civilisations" which has hosted the MARQ from 14 March until this Sunday. The museum has reached 2,444 visitors during this weekend of DOORS OPEN with which the centre wanted to celebrate the farewell of this year. ambitious exhibition that traces the trajectory of one of the world's leading most remote and prolific cultures of history through 195 pieces.
These figures reveal the great interest aroused among the people of Alicante in the MARQ's proposals and, especially in this case, in Iranian culture and the exhibition that the museum has offered about it over the last five months.
Likewise, there has also been a great response to all the activities that MARQ has programmed around this exhibition: educational workshops, games, storytelling, concerts of traditional Iranian music, lectures, film screenings, science days, teacher training courses, etc.and, above all, guided and dramatised tours throughout these intense months.
In this way, a total of 417 guided tours in which they have participated 13,999 people, 27 dramatised visits which they have been able to enjoy 765 visitors and more than 800 protocol passesAmong them, it is worth mentioning that of the Head of Exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, in the middle of the production process of the Exhibition on Iranian Art that will open next October.
The exhibition was also visited by the Head of Exhibitions of the National Museum of Iran, Nina RezaeiHe will also take part in the dismantling and packing of the almost 200 pieces that make up Iran. Cradle of Civilisations by the archaeologists and technicians of the MNI, who arrived this Saturday in Alicante -and wanted to see their pieces for the last time in our showcases on the day of the exhibition's closing-, and the supervision of the technical staff of the MARQ
The two collections will join their destinations back in Iran.those of the MNI to be reintegrated into its permanent galleries and those of the MARQ to be exhibited in the temporary galleries of the Iranian museum and to be shown to the public from 22 September under the title Alicante: Treasures of the MARQ.
