The exhibition Faces of Rome, the protagonist in the Municipal Archaeological Museum Enrique Escudero de Castro "from 28 September to 10 January, has received a total of 8,000 visitors at this time, representing an increase of 83 percent visits over the same period last year.
The success of the show, which included portraits, busts, heads, sarcophagi, created between the first century BC and third century, led to the extended two weeks because of the large number of people who wanted to see these works of art of the time Old Roman.
CRUISE COMES TO MUSEUM
Located on the ruins of a late Roman necropolis, the Municipal Archaeological Museum Enrique Escudero de Castro "receives an average of 30,000 visitors a year, most of Cartagena and other Spanish cities, although it starts to detect the presence of foreign tourists from constantly arriving cruise ships to the Port of Cartagena.
Besides the exhibition itself and artistic activities, the museum also organizes workshops for students, such as those currently underway on the Roman Town and Petrae Vox workshop, dedicated the latter to the funeral epigraphic collection has this facility, one of the best examples of stone inscriptions that exist in the Roman period in Spain.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena