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The Museum of Roman Theatre in Cartagena, whose board is composed of the Autonomous Region, the City of Cartagena and the Cajamurcia Foundation today celebrates its eighth anniversary.
This space, which has become the most visited museum in the region and one of the most popular in the country, has received during this 2016 to more than 100,000 people, 15 percent more than in 2015.
Since its inauguration on July 11, 2008, they have already gone through this space more than 1.2 million people.
To continue to attract new audiences, its leaders have extended summer opening hours and increased the activity with a number of routes and tours themed, organized in collaboration with Cartagena Port of Cultures that will allow each day can perform a route or a different family activity.
The Director General of Cultural Property and member of the board of trustees of the Roman Theater, Maria Comas said that "throughout its eight years of operation, the entire team of Roman Theatre Museum has worked hard to ensure the preservation of their collections and monument and increase the number of visitors, also increasing their degree of loyalty through activities that allow each visit to this iconic space is always different. "
During the months of July and August, visitors can enjoy the temporary exhibition "Piranesi, the rediscovery of Rome ', an exhibition conceived from the special relationship between antiquity, the Roman Theatre in Cartagena exemplified, and the work of Piranesi, for its essential role in the rediscovery of Rome.
Curated by Nacho Ruiz, the exhibition allows visitors to immerse themselves in the development of techniques, from etching to the photolithography.
A block chronologically ordered to discover the decisive steps for the art of print and lithography step in the XIX.
Museum hours these months are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 to 20:00, and on Sundays from 10:00 to 14:00.
In addition to the temporary exhibition and the museum's collection this summer they have organized special visits, for example every Tuesday, will enable an intense journey 'From Egypt to Carthago Nova'.
It is a guided tour that begins at the Roman Theatre and continues through the neighborhood of the Roman Forum and the Augusteum, which has recreated the tomb of Tutankhamen.
On Wednesday, the route 'Citizens of an empire' also part from the Roman theater to the neighborhood of the Roman Forum and the Roman House of Fortune.
Both activities will be at 11:30 hours.
Thursday will be devoted to family activities 'Theatrum: Spend a morning of theater', where participants can meet Roman society through theater, religion and politics.
You will discover how were the great buildings of shows in the Roman Empire, the types of works that are represented or persons acting on them.
Activity and the visit to the Museum and Roman Theatre in Cartagena, will be at 18:30.
Friday, at 11:30 hours, will travel 'De Qart Hadast to Carthago Nova', which starts from the Punic Wall that raised Hasdrubal and Scipio conquered to Carthago Nova, a journey through everyday life with visit the House of Fortune and the building shows, the Roman Theatre.
The route dramatized 'Indiana Jones scene' will take place on Saturdays at 12:00 hours.
It begins at the Roman Theatre, where the character will remember the moment the archaeological find of the monument, then passing by the Temple of Isis on the windlass to the tomb of Tutankhamen, recreated in the Augusteum.
Reservations for the different routes can be performed on phones 968,504,802 and 968,500,093.
The Roman Theatre Museum also has this summer with a training activity in collaboration with the summer courses at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), the course 'Cultural Landscape, memory, identity and sustainability' which will be held in this space 18 to 20 July.
The course will cover the importance, growing, which has the cultural landscape.
You can get more information on the website www.upct.es/contenido/cursosverano/inscripcioncursos.php
Source: CARM
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