The MARQ Library is a living, versatile entity that adapts to the circumstances. That is why this year we are celebrating Book Day inside the Cities of Light exhibition. Just before the exhibition, in a large display case, we can contemplate the journey of research embodied in the manuscripts and publications of those who endeavoured to understand the past and leave their findings and reflections in writing, their legacy, after all.
Archaeology attempts to read, to understand the course of existence in its material traces, often relying on written sources.
This year's Book Day poster features a quote from Álvaro Pombo: "Reading is understanding. The act of reading is understanding. To read and to understand is to live". Archaeology helps us to read history, to understand it, to understand what life was like in that remote time in the most reliable way possible.
From the MARQ Library we encourage you to take a walk through history by visiting this magnificent exhibition that helps us to understand our past, reading it in the material remains, but also in the written sources because, as Irene Vallejo affirms, where documents are removed and books do not circulate freely, it is very easy to change the story of history at will, with impunity..
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