Today, 9 May, the European Union celebrates the peace and unity of the continent with its day, Europe Day. This 2020 is a very special 70th Anniversary, commemorating the Schuman Declaration, with a large part of our cultural spaces and museums confined, as are the vast majority of European citizens, by Covid-19. To celebrate it, the MARQ opens its doors virtually to the world, from its website www.marqalicante.cominviting all those who look out of this window today to discover how museums, the heart of Modern Europe, are preparing to propel it into the future, preserving its cultural identity, helping to emerge from this crisis together and stronger: Europeans.
Even in normal circumstances, European museums have demonstrated their real commitment to the people and territories closest to them, weaving collaborative models with those furthest away, between museums all over the world, sharing the same objectives of universal access to culture, heritage and the history of humanity, bringing it closer to all audiences.
Alicante, and with it the MARQ, must wait, better confident than confined, for the Phase that will allow us to move towards the reopening of our museums. The Covid-19 pandemic is intensifying inequalities and creating new threats. Today all Europeans are suffering constraints, affected by this crisis, threatened in terms of health, with our lives at risk, and in terms of survival and mobility, with our freedoms and rights at risk. We must ensure that Europe and Europeans enjoy the same rights to access to health care, to our health, to work, to the education of our young people, to the dignity of our elderly and to vital procedures, to research, to education, to culture, to private initiative, to the political union and action of our governments, also during the pandemic, so that no one is left behind. Let us take care of Europe. Let us take care of our museums, let us invest in our common future.
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