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The museum contains one of the prehistoric collections in the country, was inaugurated in March 1992.
Has been visited during this period by more than 225,000 people.
The councilman of Culture of the Municipality of Lorca, Maria Rosa Medina, near the Municipal Archaeological Museum director, Andres Martinez, presented the program of events is designed to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of the Museum.
The mayor of Culture has stated that the program starts tomorrow, Wednesday at 8 pm with a lecture entitled "Introduction to Underwater Archaeology," by Dr. David Munuera Navarro.
The events continue on Friday, March 12 also at 8 pm with a ceremony in which Carlos M ª López Martínez will present the new website of the Archaeological Museum which replaces the one created in 2004 and currently in use www.museoarqueologicodelorca.com address.
On Wednesday March 17 at 8 pm hour will present "Guide
Teaching Lorca Municipal Archaeological Museum.
Chambers Middle Ages Numismatics "and the CD that contains three tutorials: Prehistory, Iberians and Romans and Middle Ages. This guide is done in collaboration with the CPR de Lorca and with funding from the Department of Fine Arts.
On Thursday March 25 at 8 pm will open the exhibition hours
time entitled "Medieval jars Municipal Archaeological Museum of Lorca."
This is an exhibition produced by the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Lorca and funded by the Department of Culture of the City.
History of the Museum of Prehistory
Recall that the ownership and management of the Archaeological Museum of Lorca since its inauguration in March 1992 is the Ayuntamiento de Lorca.
The philosophy that the Museum was conceived to provide Lorca and the surrounding area of a useful and necessary for cultural development.
Over eighteen years of operation has been trying to interweave the different functions of conservation, research, exhibition, education and communication that includes Law 16/1985 on Spanish Historical Heritage museum in its definition (Title VII, art. 59.3 ), so it was at all times living center serving the community.
Movable heritage in the Museum is your most valuable asset, since they are a very important and fundamental part of the historical memory of the region of Lorca forged with the dregs of cultures that occurred in prehistory to the Middle Ages.
This is a museum whose collections are dominated unidisciplinary the archaeological.
The most important collections that are saved MAML Archaeology, the pieces are presented in a reasoned and systematic to allow for contemplation, yet attempting to effective teaching of prehistory and history of the town of Lorca.
The Museum's permanent collection now consists of about 4,800 pieces, shown in eleven rooms.
This exhibition has been made to pose a chronological journey through the cultures that inhabited the region linked to Guadalentín valley from the Middle Paleolithic (40,000 BC) to the Middle Ages.
Each room has information bilingual (Spanish and English) on the most important pieces.
The main activities in the Museum over 18 years of existence could be condensed into the following sections:
1.
Temporary exhibitions: more than 20 self-produced shows such as "The Islamic ceramics in Murcia: Lorca materials, produced by the Municipal Archaeological Museum Lorca has been shown in a traveling in 11 museums in the Region of Murcia.
Collaboration in large exhibitions such as "Footprints", "The Arts and Sciences in the Muslim West.
Elders in the courts Mediterranean Mursi, Floridablanca "," Alfonso X "," Caravaca on high ", etc.
2.
Have organized over 150 conferences, mainly in subjects related to the archeology, history and museology.
3.
Research.
Have been addressed during these 18 years of operation over 550 people involved in research and education.
4.
Some activities have been conducted in collaboration with the Association of Friends of the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Lorca, editor of Pool, whose No. 7 was presented last December.
Educational activities.
In the case of Lorca's Archaeological Museum has been working with the Advisory periodicity Humanities Center for Language and Communication of Lorca, the fruit of this collaboration is development of the three volumes of the Museum's tutorial, the third of which presented on 17 March.
Over the 18 years he has opened the Archaeological Museum has undertaken several educational activities that focus primarily on the school.
From these experiences have prepared the following educational workshops: prehistoric cave paintings, Roman wall painting, masks and puppets, Roman mosaic and grain milling in prehistory.
This last workshop can also be performed in the Archaeological Park of The Cypress, site of the Argar Culture (Bronze Age).
After the experience accumulated during these years primarily guided tours for school children and conducting training workshops for museum staff, we further reaffirm the great importance of the involvement of the permanent and temporary exhibitions organized by the Archaeological Museum of Lorca with didactic materials and educational experiences, which support teachers and increase awareness of our history through experience with archeology.
The public.
Lorca's Archaeological Museum has been visited during the eighteen years of operation by about 225,000 people.
The user profile during the years of existence has changed very little, being the most frequent visitor from the Region of Murcia, Lorca fundamentally.
Throughout this decade have increased and consolidated visits from schools primarily Lorca, amounting to 60,000.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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