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The Municipal Archaeological Museum Enrique Escudero de Castro is ready to receive more visitors. Today reopens its doors after the work carried out inside that assumed its temporary closure in December.
So I explained the mayor of Culture, Rosario Montero, who this morning was to know the details of the new look of the Museum, along with the center's director, Maria Comas.
For almost two months, has remodeled the ceiling covering the reservoir in order to prevent leakage problems.
The works involved the removal of the installed boards to replace them with plasterboard walls.
Furthermore, it has been used to give more natural light to the archaeological remains with a new skylight.
There remain works the rest of the roof over the galleries where the exhibitions. There is still no specific date for the start of this remodeling, but more likely to take place in summer, said the councilman.
BACK WITH NEWS
After the break by works, the Archaeological Museum returns with news.
One is the new design of Teaching Guide on Latin epigraphy that teaches how to interpret the inscriptions.
The center is committed to give a more significant illustrations of this publication with images that attract both young and old paper.
It is designed so that it attracts from the novice to the expert, at all levels.
Although Vox Petrae (the voice of the stone), it's called the Workshop Epigraphy, is aimed at Primary Schools and Secondary can also disfrutrase for anyone who wants to can get into their pages, clarified the Museum director.
Jaime Vizcaino, Professor of Archaeology, has been commissioned to prepare the text and Claudia Molero, graphic designer, artwork and design.
This new edition has also received scientific advice from several experts in the field, and with the collaboration of the Spanish Society of Classical Studies and Murcia Association of Teachers of Latin and Greek.
Also new is the addition of three new entries in the permanent collection.
This is the wake of the spouses, which was found in the Windlass Hill, a funeral altar and a plate of hot springs monumental Roman Forum.
Visitors can also watch three temporary exhibitions that have been organized before June and that soon we will know the details.
ONE OF THE SEVEN MÃ S VISITED
As explained its director, Maria Comas, this museum each year than being one of the 7 most popular of the Region of Murcia, next to the Roman Theatre.
An example of this is the increased number of visits to its website, with 165,857 visitors last year.
In 2013 were 26,005 people who visited the center, despite the end of last month.
Of these visitors, most, 23,045, were Spaniards and other foreigners.
The opening to the public is the Archaeological Museum, Tuesday to Friday from 10.00 to 14.00 h and from 17.00 to 20.00, and Saturday and Sunday from 11.00 to 14.00 h.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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