Under the heading Dénia, archaeology and museum'. the MARQ is preparing its new exhibition project with a selection of pieces of great historical value from the Dénia's patrimonial funds and other museums that will come to Alicante for the first time from November 2025 to April 2026.
The Deputy for Culture, Juan de Dios Navarroand the Mayor of Dénia, Vicent GrimaltThis morning, they presented what will be the fourteenth exhibition in the programme. Municipal Museums at MARQ'.which began in 2004. "Today we are taking the first step in a project with which we intend to highlight and give value to the historical remains of Denia, a town with a great cultural background, whose archaeological remains will help us to draw a more complete picture of our common past, because the history of the province of Alicante has been built with the evolution of each of its municipalities.".
The presentation was given by the director of the Alicante museum, Manuel Olcinathe commissioner Massu Sentí and the architect Angel RocamoraThe exhibition, which will be mainly drawn from the funds of the City of Dènia Archaeological Museum (MACD). It is one of the most outstanding centres in the province that holds and exhibits archaeological pieces and collections among the most important in the Valencian Community, such as the one from Islamic bronzesAccording to the specialists, this is "the most varied and outstanding collection in quantitative terms on the Iberian Peninsula and in the Islamic West".
Both the deputy and the mayor of Dènia have highlighted the joint work being carried out by both institutions, after the signing of the collaboration agreementto realise the project, which includes the restoration in the MARQ Workshops of some of the pieces selected by the curator of the exhibition.
Dénia, archaeology and museum' will bring together, in addition to the pieces from the MACD, selected works on temporary loan from other museums such as the MARQthe Valencia Cathedral Museumthe Fine Arts and Prehistory of the same city, the MAN Madridthe Louvre in Paris -with a epigraphed marble plaque of the 11th century Vizier Abu Amir Muhammad- or the Bancaja Foundationwith the canvas of Vicent Mestre The Embarkation of the Moors in Denia Portwhich is part of a series of seven that the, King Philip II of Valencia and III of Castile commissioned to fix in the historical memory a transcendental event for our land, the expulsion of the Moors between 1612 and 1613.
