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The mayor, Pilar Barreiro, has offered the assistance of the city in recovery and external promotion of the Mercedes Treasury.

The mayor held a meeting this morning with the director of the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology (ARQUA), Xabier Nieto.

According to Barreiro said the exit, it was the first formal meeting held after the decision of the Ministry of Culture in order to ARQUA restoration and permanent exhibition of the treasure.

The mayor has said that the two institutions will work together to promote the city and treasure.

In fact, the City plans to begin including the treasure from his usual targets promotion in other regions, as it has done with the Roman Theatre and the Forum.

The mayor believes that will be a common work which must be programmed times and temper.

We are in a race to the bottom as Cartagena is the City Treasury and the partnership between the City and the ARQUA will be for life.

The first pieces, in a few months

Meanwhile ARQUA director, Xavier Nieto, has expressed its willingness to show society as soon as possible the diversity and uniqueness of the treasure, but may not be a few months before.

Nieto explained that first will begin to restore the parts that have more risk of deterioration, ending why your restoration easier.

The idea is to expose the ARQUA the first pieces as soon as a set for it, regardless of the traveling exhibition which date initially set for the second half of 2013.

All staff of the museum, among which are three restorers and three documentary, is now focused on the recovery project and documentation of 600,000 pieces and 14.5 tons, making up the treasure.

This has been a need for a new computer program, unique in the world's museums, which allows host and process 2.4 million photographs will be taken of the coins (front and back) before and after restoration.

Nieto has said that it is already working on the screenplay exhibition and the museum project, and discussed the approach initially was to restore to the public, but ultimately was rejected by dangerous chemicals used to eliminate corrosion and clean the coins.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena