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Over 427,000 people have toured the museum and the Roman Theatre in Cartagena since opening on July 11, 2008.
The recovery project conducted by the architect Rafael Moneo has increased expectations of visitors to the monument conceived as a journey through time, culminating in the bleachers imposing unexpected appearance of the Theatre.
The visitors to the Museum records indicate that 74% of visits had an individual character compared to 26% were performed in groups.
These percentages reveal how far the project has aroused great interest in the general public, as the challenge of most museums is to be able to attract that individual visit, compared to captive audience that is usually always the largest (visits group) in most museums.
As for the origin of visitors, 66% are domestic visitors of which 18% local and regional, and 48% from other provinces.
Among the highlights domestic visitors from Madrid (57%), Comunidad Valencia (17%), Andalusia and Catalonia.
Foreign visitors have meant 34%, especially English (48%), Germans (15%) and France (8%), although, at the end of June 2011 the number of foreign visitors had been 60% compared to national, growing almost 30% compared to June 2010.
The Theatre Museum of Cartagena has become to today an important cultural landmark and tourist on a national and European level, as evidenced by the Grand Prix of Europa Nostra, who received last year in the conservation category, supported by European Commission Culture.
The jury particularly appreciated the integration of the monument in the urban fabric and its proper conservation and exhibition of educational and cultural purposes.
The European distinction was accompanied by a prize money has financed the design of a promotional campaign to strengthen the identity of the monument, with the slogan A JEWEL OF ANTIGÃœEDAD, LEADING emphasizing the almost ASNIC impressive two masterpieces of architecture that still remains from different periods are integrated in an exemplary manner.
In addition, during its third anniversary, the Museum's website has been enriched with a brief audiovisual Museum and Roman Theatre of Cartagena.
The audiovisual take people the necessary information on the equipment of the museum and its route can be displayed on www.teatroromanocartagena.org
At the same time, the Museum services provide the city with superb cultural and scientific equipment.
So the hall hosts cultural events, research rooms and the library functions do Centro de Estudios de Arquitectura Romana, also charged boost thanks to the collaboration with the University.
Thus, Cartagena has managed acquire a reference center for European classical archeology.
The Museum has also been implicated in these three years in all major city events such as Easter, Much More Festival in May, the Sea of Music, the Med Cup or festivals Carthaginians and Romans, participating in a active in them, and to encourage a Open House linked to these events, also working with its cultural spaces in the schedule of temporary exhibitions, classical concerts, literary events and tourism promotion.
The museum, built in the Roman Theatre Foundation, manages all the cultural, administrative, technical, economic and conservation of archaeological remains and maintenance of the Museum.
Also promotes cultural promotion through exhibitions, publications, conferences and other activities, and encourage cultural diffusion.
Today the museum and theater have become the main engine of development of cultural tourism in the region, helping your management not only to cover much of the operating costs of the museum itself, but also generate wealth in their environment immediate example is the increase of settlements in the surroundings of the monument since 2008, and the increase of cruise ships that dock at its port.
SUMMER ACTIVITIES 2011
El Museo del Teatro Romano de Cartagena in collaboration with the summer courses of UPCT has organized a course on archaeological parks.
Course: Archaeological parks, research on the museological
This course aims to address the current situation of archaeological sites both in the Region of Murcia, where the Archaeological Park of the windlass, the Archaeological Park of the Bastide de Totana or all of Castillo Baños de Alhama de Murcia, and other examples close if Lucentum (Alicante) or the Segrobriga (Cuenca).
Archaeological parks in their role as public communicator encompasses a wide variety of media and services, routes, content and information, interpretive centers, publications, audio and so on. ¿, Where many professionals involved, so the course is open to students from different disciplines.
Date and horarioDel 18 to 20 July.
From 9.30 to 14.00 16.30 to 20.30 h and h
Location: Hall of the Roman Theatre Museum
Temporary Exhibition
The exhibition history of a discovery.
Story of a project: the Roman Theatre in Cartagena, which has passed through Murcia, Madrid and Tarragona, can be seen again in the temporary exhibition hall.
The exhibition takes visitors which meant the discovery of the Roman Theater in one of the most depressed neighborhoods of the city and the story of his recovery.
A long, complex, but exciting ending with the inauguration of the Museo del Teatro Romano on July 11, 2008, a project has been funded by the Foundation of the Roman Theatre in Cartagena
Date and horarioDe Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 a20, 00 h.
Sundays from 10.00 to 14.00 h.
Venue: Temporary Museum Roman Theatre
Summer Workshop at the Museum of Roman Theatre in Cartagena
Build the Roman city.
Come to Carthage
This summer, the Roman Theatre Museum offers the possibility of building a Roman city in a conditioned space for this purpose, the museum education classroom.
This is a fun workshop in which over a smaller model will have the opportunity to build the city of Carthago Nova.
A guide who will show the keys to the building of the ancient Roman city and the tour of the museum and the Roman Theatre.
The workshop aims at knowledge of ancient Carthago Nova from the construction of a model of 63 pieces, whose union forms an ideal Roman city walls, cemeteries, government buildings and religious buildings show, and so on.
The use of the teaching model used to specify all these aspects, creating an ideal city to help link the main building and its function remains preserved in the city and the Museum of the Roman Theatre.
Once the classroom activity will start the tour of the Museum and Teatro Romano.
- Target Activity: families with children 6-12 years .- Groups: maximum 25 people .- Calendar: Tuesday to Friday at 18:00 during June / July (pre-booking 968.50.00.93)
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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