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Cartagena will host the permanent exhibition of this treasure with the most significant pieces in the collection, including eight thousand coins.
Currently he is completing conservation work forty thousand of them in ARQUATEC, which are cataloged with an innovative automated system
The National Archaeological Museum of Underwater Cartagena (ARQUA) will host from May 29 permanent exhibition which parts recovered frigate Nuestra Senora de la Mercedes is.
This is the first time that this treasure is exhibited whose restoration is one of the heritage restoration projects with more substantial due to the volume of the collection and its innovative cataloging.
This was announced this morning by the Ministry of Culture during the presentation of the exhibition and attending Enrique Varela, deputy director general of the National Museums and Ivan Negueruela, manage ARQUA.
The sample is incorporated into the permanent collection of the Museum with the new module Oceanic Navigation.
The centerpiece of this exhibition is made ​​up 8,000 coins and 40 pieces of different kind from the frigate. Cartagena In the most significant parts of this treasury of 14 tons and a half of archaeological remains that were found are displayed, clarified today the director of Museum.
Visitors can also enjoy some of the most moving pieces in this collection, such as a gold button and a uniform that is engraved with the words Royal Navy and two gold snuff.
The coins are displayed in different windows, one of them will be displayed so that the public an idea of ​​the condition in which they found in the seabed were made.
In another, they exhibit categories.
THE NAVIGATION "OCEA N NICA
The exhibition, which will occupy 330 square meters, will be enabled within the permanent exhibits located in the basement of the museum.
In addition to cultural property recovered from the site of the ship, it will go through the history of this frigate, the shipbuilding era, shipping lanes, and the relevance and need for the protection of underwater cultural heritage.
As a resource to illustrate and supplement the sample, a cross section of the frigate Mercedes include full-scale, 11 meters wide and 37 high.
An audiovisual piece also help visitors better understand the journey of this boat, plus an interactive on their physical characteristics.
A legacy to protect is another video that is also issued in this exhibition and emphasizing the importance of research, conservation and dissemination of our underwater cultural heritage.
The purpose is to instill the respect that society should be our legacy and raise awareness of the damage caused by the theft.
A MUSEUM MADE TO MEASURE
Thus, the sample is integrated naturally in discourse and exhibition space in the central nave of the Museum.'s ARQUA was made ​​to accommodate this treasure of Mercedes, claimed Enrique Varela.
Meanwhile, the director of ARQUA added that is what this museum was built to become a great national benchmark of Underwater Archaeology and we're getting.
Another batch of 30,000 coins frigate Mercedes temporarily be displayed in the National Archaeological Museum and the Naval de Madrid.
The date of opening of the exhibition traveling the last frigate Mercedes trip has yet to be fixed, because the conservation work for this collection are not as advanced as permanent as claimed deputy of the National Museums .
In the coming days you can access a web page within the Ministry of Culture in developing the work of documentation, cataloging and management of information generated.
The objective of this initiative is to raise public awareness of the necessary protection of underwater cultural heritage.
In addition, we are working on incorporating the information to the Digital Collections Network of Museums of Spain (CER.es), Hispanic, European Digital Library and State Archives Network COUPLE.
CONSERVACIÃ "N COINS
The ARQUATEC, National Centre for Underwater Archaeology, welcomes these months the work of preventive conservation of the remains of the ship and the labeling and identification of all the material in a systematic way.
Currently, the process is being finalized disposal of chemical treatment of a batch of 40,000 coins will form part of the permanent and temporary exhibition.
Later, it will stabilize the rest of the collection will not be exposed to other treatments.
An estimated completion becomes effective in 2015. Restoration work of numismatic materials have not been completed, except in cases such as copper ingots whose stabilization process is very slow.
Stabilize the corrosion process is the main job of the restorers that has been fueled by the manipulation of the company Odyssey face.
The aim is to remove the concretions, deposits and unstable elements that were not part of the original.
This is done with two different chemical baths utlizando products in each of them.
Then proceed to the mechanical cleaning of impurities from the surface and reinvest the process of oxidation with the reduction of silver salts to make the currency more readable.
This was explained this morning Juan Luis Sierra, ARQUA restorer.
The last phase of treatment involves cleaning the surface of these pieces by rubbing manually each coin with a cotton around. Prior to this step as the currency is stable in the absence of the debug phase of the molded part aesthetic with a simple cotton without any material, clarified another restorer, Milagros Buendia, part of the Museum team with Soledad Pérez. Three other experts in this field of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain are also working in this Project.
Cataloging "N INNOVATIVE
Another process that is carried out at this center is cataloging and identification of the assets of the frigate.
It is a commitment to technological innovation in the form of systematized cataloged parts, according to their typological and morphological variety.
Each coin is individually treated by this device in which intelligent vision systems for your measurements, weight and take specific numbers for inventory and a bar code and image capture of both sides is created.
After being labeled, the parts become treated for preservation.
Thus, this device can recognize one by one after the restoration work.
This equipment has been designed by the Technology Center, Naval Sea and Cartagena.
At the same time, automation faiclitará dump all this information interfacing with the database itself Museum.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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