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The Roman Theatre Museum Cartagena, under the foundation formed by the Community, the City and Cajamurcia Foundation, has closed a historic year with an increase of 11.5 percent in the number of visitors.
Specifically, the Museum received 180,000 visitors in 2015, which, moreover, the figure of a million people have enjoyed this museum space of reference in the Region of Murcia since its opening was exceeded.
Specifically, since its inauguration in July 2008, they have approached more than 1,100,000 people to this cultural space, comprising 5,000 square meters of self restored monument and museum 3.2000 and facilities dedicated to conservation, dissemination and exhibition, besides contributing to the research.
As for the origin of visitors, 52 percent were domestic, mainly in the Region of Murcia, Madrid, Valencia, Andalusia and Catalonia.
The remaining 48 percent came from other countries.
Of the total of foreign visitors, British tourists were the majority, with 53 percent, followed by French (13 percent) and from Russia and Germany (six percent each).
The general director of Cultural Heritage and member of the board of the Foundation Teatro Romano Cartagena, Maria Comas, said, "These outstanding results and increased experience this space every year in the number of visitors are the result of the good work of the team of the Museum , which also guarantee the preservation of its collections and the monument seeks to increase the number of people who enjoy it and publicize our past. "
Among the tasks performed in this cultural and heritage site, is the investigation through the Center for the Study of Roman Theatre Museum, which addresses both manage applications and meet researchers and the tasks of management and control archaeological and restoration work in addition to the location and identification of all funds, whether objects, photographs and historical documents or administrative documents.
"Approximately twenty years of archaeological work on the monument and its surroundings, plus five years of restoration and architectural performance have generated an extraordinary amount of information that has been ordered in recent years to also ensure the preservation and deposit final space of this primary documentation from different performances, "said Maria Comas.
Another line of work that has been developed from the Roman Theatre Museum Cartagena has been the formation and organization of the Museum Library, specializing in classical archeology and Roman architecture, whose career began with different strategies of exchanges of publications, both nationally and internationally, while funds through donations, among which the deposit of the Library of Jose Maria Luzon Nogué increased.
The Museum also increases the number of activities aimed at families as much for school, work and developed in cooperation with the Centre for Teachers of Cartagena, under the Ministry of Education and Universities, in developing teaching materials and resources to improve the performance of students during his visit to the monument.
Source: CARM
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