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The Museum Center of the Roman Forum of Cartagena will begin to be built shortly and will have a term of execution of 10 months.
It will do so in the lower part of the Health Center of the Historic Area, after the work was awarded to the temporary union of Intelligent Heritage companies - Tudmir, for a value of one million two hundred thousand euros.
The architectural project will house the most significant pieces found in the excavations of the Molinete Archaeological Park, as well as the site of the Roman Curia.
To explain all the details of the architectural project, on Thursday, April 5, the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, appeared before the media;
the vice president of the Repsol Foundation, Ignacio Egea;
the general director of Cultural Assets of the Autonomous Community, Juan Antonio Lorca;
the architect, Andrés Cánovas;
and the co-directors of the Molinete excavations, José Miguel Noguera and María José Madrid.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, stressed that it is a work that is highly anticipated by all and that will house all the pieces found in the site.
With this phase culminates the project of valorization of the 5,000 square meters that make up Archaeological Park Molinete, which will make Cartagena has one of the largest archaeological parks in Europe.
According to the architect of the project, Andrés Cánovas, the new museographic center will give access to visitors who wish to know the site of the Forum Neighborhood.
The architect has designed a center of 1,000 square meters distributed in three different levels, of which 600 will be exclusively for museum use.
This project is valued at one million two hundred thousand euros, contributed by the Repsol Foundation and which will carry out the temporary union of Intelligent Heritage companies -Tudmir.
The first level will host the entrance to the center and general services such as: the employee area, visitor reception area, a multipurpose room with a screen (for meetings and where you can project the history of the site).
In this first floor will be the first of the exhibition hall, which will have a special acoustic and environmental conditioning, for the good conservation of the exhibited pieces.
In the intermediate zone you will have a first glimpse of the archaeological remains of the Curia to reach an area linked to the remains in which a restitution of the volume and height that the Roman Curia had is projected.
In the third level will house the La Curia deposit, the perimeter will also contain other museographic rooms.
Once the tour of the new museum is finished, the rest of the archaeological park will be accessed.
The current access to the center will be the exit from it.
THE PIECES OF THE MUSEUM
Between 300 and 350 pieces will make up the collection that can be visited in the new Roman Forum museum.
The pieces will make a chronological review throughout the history of the city, from the late third century BC to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
According to the co-director of the excavation, José Miguel Noguera, this selection has been carried out during the last year and will serve to tell in general the whole urban, social, economic and political history of Cartagena, and in particular of the Molinete neighborhood.
The pieces will be of all the characteristics, epochs and typologies, some of them of a great artistic and archaeological quality as they are the 3 panels with the muses, or pieces of great historical value as the inscription where the prefect of the praetorium of Rome is mentioned Advento , that has supposed to rewrite the history of Cartagonova.
After the presentation of the new architectural project the entire delegation has made a visit to learn about the latest excavation work on the windlass.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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