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[Exposure'Pacífico.
Spain and the adventure of the Sea reaches Cartagena Sur']
The National Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Cartagena house since 9 October, the Pacific exhibition.
Spain and the adventure of the South Seas, jointly organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports through the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spanish Cultural Action (AC / E) and the National Museum.
The exhibition, curated by Antonio Torres and Antonio Fernández Sánchez de Mora, will run until December 15, 2014 and focuses on the discovery and exploration of the Pacific Ocean.
One hundred facsimile copies of documents from the Spanish, audiovisual sets and state archives, which make up this sample, divided into six blocks, invites visitors to journey through an extraordinary transformation of this unknown ocean for the man in a communication channel for peoples.
The exhibition opens with the aim of disseminating the documentary heritage of Hispanic Pacific.
Many documents held in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville and other famous centers, which are now exhibited for your content to be read aloud as one of the great contributions of the people to world history.
A thousand people today are peoples, who once grew together by fine roads in the ocean, and now share the wake of a bright past and a common culture.
The first areas of exposure, Incomplete and Latin world, the unexpected continent, will introduce the visitor to the offline world of the fifteenth century, the competition between Portugal and Spain to reach the Indian and the unexpected discovery of America.
In these areas of introduction and contextualization reproduction Tordesillas Treaty, an international agreement between Portugal and Spain that has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995 is displayed.
Then, several documents and chronicles introduced the visitor to the next level: The discovery of the South Sea, where key documents related to the company's mainland and the feat of Vasco Nunez de Balboa Extremadura be shown, first European to see the Pacific Ocean and make it known in the Old Continent.
The documents presented in this section are the first news of that sighting, illustrations and references to indigenous shipping seized from people under gold.
A manipulable facsimile offers visitors a list of documents that illustrate the interest of the Spaniards to know those new costs, bringing Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, Vasco Nunez de Balboa and many other browsers.
The exhibition then takes a surprising turn and enters its fourth area, the exploration of the Pacific Ocean, new documents, maps and naval models narrate the adventures and misadventures of the Spanish navigators in the Pacific Ocean.
The expedition commanded by Magellan will be the first of a long list of companies discoverers, which became a space hitherto unknown in a navigable ocean.
In some small chips accompanying documents, visitors can see the main landmarks of each expedition, discovering such as storms, scurvy, mutiny and immensity, they converted the exploration of the Pacific in a human enterprise of extreme hardship.
As remarkable documents in this area, citing the course of Magellan and Elcano, salary men who received their letters between Urdaneta and Felipe II or the first maps of the Philippines, California, Mariana Islands and Palau.
The fifth section of the exhibition, New boundaries, new towns, offers maps and documents showing the first consequences of contact between distant worlds and the tensions and diplomatic relations.
It will discover the first map of China reached Castilla and diverse diplomatic correspondence with officials from Japan or Indonesia, highlighting the difficulties of these early contacts.
Open routes back and forth across the Pacific and established the first contacts with the island world, the exhibition explores the sixth area, the road to the trail, the Pacific bridge between continents, which through a great Pacific and two map lights representing the cities of Manila and Acapulco, early, features and difficulties of transoceanic route of the Manila Galleon, which kept together the ports of Manila and Acapulco for 250 years will be analyzed and the connection between Asia , America and Europe to connect with the Carrera de Indias, which started from Veracruz and ended in Seville.
The Pacific Spain exhibition and adventure of the South Sea has the distinction of having been designed with a dual mount for exhibition in two countries simultaneously.
After an advance in Trujillo (Spain), the first venues have been the Archivo General de Indias (Sevilla) and the National Museum of the Philippines (Manila).
Huelva Provincial Museum and Archives of Bogotá continued this project and now receives over on National Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
In December, picking up international roaming, the House of Ecuadorian Culture of Quito (Ecuador), twinning both cities and countries in a cultural event, a new bridge for communication and exchange among the peoples of Asia, America, Oceania and Europe united by a past and a common present.
This singularity will be enhanced by a proposed activities, facilitated by new technologies, will enable those groups to approach that might be interested, such as the public school.
For this occasion, the exhibition has enjoyed the cooperation of the Nao Victoria, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Museo del Oro (Banco de Colombia), the Lilly Library (Indiana University), Tsing Hua University (Foundation Taiwan), Arcadiantiqua / Music Prima and Scientific Circle.
Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia
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