The Fundación CV MARQ has organised three open days on 14, 15 and 16 November to celebrate the inauguration of a new temporary exhibition, the fourteenth in the "Local Museums in the MARQ" programme, dedicated to highlighting the museums of our province and disseminating the valuable collections they house.
Dénia. Archaeology and Museum'. which brings together for the first time in Alicante an extraordinary collection of more than 600 pieces of great historical value resulting from more than a hundred years of research and excavations in the capital of the Marina Alta, can be visited free of charge from 15:00 on Friday 14th November, as well as on Saturday from 10:00 to 19:00 and Sunday from 10:00 to 14:00.
Curated by Massu Sentí-Ribeshead of the archaeology department of the Dénia Town Council, and with the exhibition design by Angel RocamoraThis exhibition, which opens today, Friday 14 November at 12 noon, draws mainly from the funds of the Archaeological Museum of the City of Dènia (MACD), together with those of the MARQ, Archaeological Museum of the Provincial Council of Alicante, in collaboration with Museums and Cultural Institutions as outstanding as Le Louvre in Paris, the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, the Fine Arts and Prehistory Museum in Valencia, the Diocesan Museum of the Cathedral of Valencia and the Bancaja Foundation, among others.
Among the exhibits, the Islamic bronzes from DeniaAccording to the specialists, it is "the most varied and outstanding collection in quantitative terms on the Iberian Peninsula and in the Islamic West". The 11th-century epigraphic marble plaque of the 11th-century Wazir Abu Amir Muhammad, from the Louvre or the canvas by Vicent Mestre The Embarkation of the Moors in Denia Port, from the collections of the Bancaja Foundation, which forms 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.
