On 18 May next, International Museum Day will be celebrated under the slogan "...".The future of museums in changing communities". and to celebrate it the Fundación CV MARQ has programmed a wide range of activities from 13 May until Sunday 18 May.
The days 17 and 18 May on MARQ and the sites of La Illeta in El Campello and Albufereta will each hold a open daysThe museum will be open during its usual opening hours, so that locals and visitors can enjoy both the temporary exhibition "Cities of Light" and the museum's permanent collection, as well as the free visit to the archaeological sites belonging to the Alicante Provincial Council.
The activities planned to celebrate IWD 2025, promoted by the MARQ Foundation through its Didactics, Accessibility, Club Llumiq and Social Responsibility Unit, range from the holding of didactic workshops to theatre, educational talks, guided and dramatised tours, treasure hunts and guided solar observation.. It is also planned to hold a clandestine Swing-Lindy Hop by The Nest Swing Dance Studioin the gardens of the MARQ, on Sunday 18 May from 12.00 to 14.00.
Tuesday 13 May
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.: Training talk "Archaeology as a tool for learning about the past". Activity included in the educational and social responsibility programme. "History without barriers: MARQ-APSA"We are working in collaboration with the APSA-Alicante Training Centre.
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.: Workshop "Decorate your domus". This activity for children during long hospital stays is part of the educational and social responsibility programme "Un Hospital de Cuento" that we carry out in collaboration with the Unidad Pedagógica Hospitalaria del Servicio de Pediatría del Hospital General Universitario Dr. Balmis de Alicante.
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Educational talk "The armies of the Modern Age". This activity is included in the educational and social responsibility programme "Return with a new story" that we carry out in collaboration with the Alicante Penitentiary Centre.
Wednesday 14 May
18:00 a 19:00: Guided visit to the Sala de Cultura Íbera of the MARQ. This activity is part of the educational and Social Responsibility programme ".Guide for a day at MARQ". which we carry out in collaboration with APSA, this time by Dilvia García and Andrés López, APSA users.
Friday 16 May
Tomorrow
11:00 to 12:00 h: WORKSHOP "Writing and counting like the Romans". In this workshop for users of the Alicante Down's Syndrome Association, participants will learn about Roman inscriptions (epigraphy) with coins (numismatics): copying a Roman coin on a cloth bag to which they will add a label of their own choice, including a date.
11:00 to 12:00 h: Training Lecture "The armies of modern times".. This activity is part of the educational and social responsibility programme "MARQ+65" that we carry out in collaboration with ASAUTE, Aulas de la Tercera Edad de Alicante.
Afternoon
19:30 a 20:30: THEATRE by the group "POR LA CARA" from IES MARÍA BLASCO, in the MARQ Assembly Hall, with the performance of the play AS ALWAYS, based on the Euripides' Phenícias and directed by Natalia Santiago.
Synopsis: Two women lawyers face a difficult trial. In order to face it successfully, they decide to review a case with which they have similarities, an old but important trial: the trial that Antigone brought against Creon, after returning to Thebes after the death of Oedipus in exile. The statements made by Antigone and Creon before the jury will revive the terrible war that pitted the two sons of Oedipus against each other for power in Thebes and will bring to light the injustice and tragedy that, as always, the weakest pay the price for.
Intended for the general public, limited to the capacity of the MARQ Assembly Hall. Free of charge.
Saturday 17 May
Throughout the day, visitors can take part in a Clue Game about the temporary exhibition. "CCities of Light. Ákra Leuké, Lucentum, Laqant
Tomorrow
11:00 a 13:30: Workshop "The bird of Lucentum".. Our visitors will make a fun puzzle with the image of a bird painted with the tempera technique. This decoration on a fragment of stucco was found in the excavations carried out in the Tossal de Manises. The image represents a bird in profile and to the left, with its wings folded..
Intended for the public in general. MARQ Gardens. No prior registration is required.
As a novelty, in this edition of DIM 2025, various activities have also been programmed for this same 17th May, in collaboration with the MUDIC, Museo Didáctico e Interactivo de Ciencias Jesús Carnicer (Jesús Carnicer Didactic and Interactive Science Museum), "The sky of our ancestors: science and astronomy in Ibero-Roman culture".
From 11:30 to 14:00 Guided sun observation
The activity will begin with a live observation of the SunThe participants will be able to view its surface using two specialised telescopes:
- A telescope with solar filter which makes it possible to see with certainty the sunspots.
- A H-alpha telescope (Hα)specifically designed to observe the Sun in the hydrogen alpha line, which allows you to see solar flares, flares and storms.
During the observation, the functioning of the Sun as a star, its influence on the Earth and its role as a time marker for mankind since ancient times will be explained.
Intended for the general public. MARQ Gardens. No prior registration is required.
10:30 to 11:30 and from 13:00 to 14:00: Workshop: "The sky in your hands".
Participants will build two simple astronomical devices:
- A solar simulatorThe sun's movement throughout the year and its use in agricultural calendars and rituals can be understood.
- A star simulatorwhich will show the arrangement of the stars at different times of the year.
From these simulators, a connection will be established with the astronomical knowledge of the Iberian and Roman cultures located on the sites of Lucentum (Tossal de Manises) and La Illeta dels Banyets. We will explore how these civilisations observed and interpreted the sky, how they integrated it into their daily lives, their organisation of time, and their worldview.
Recommended for the general public aged 8 and over (children must be accompanied by an adult). Registration by telephone on 965 149 000 or at the museum's ticket offices.
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Visit to the room of MARQ's FIELD ARCHAEOLOGYThe workshop was followed by a cardial pottery workshop and the MYSTERIOUS BOX, with the users of the Educational and Social Responsibility Programme. EMPOWER PARENTS. Cultural mediation programme, aimed at promoting access to culture for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families, in collaboration with ASPALI.
Afternoon
17:00 a 19:00: Workshop "The bird of Lucentum". Our visitors will make a fun puzzle with the image of a bird painted with the tempera technique, a decoration made on a fragment of stucco found in the excavations carried out in the Tossal de Manises. The image represents a bird in profile and to the left, with its wings folded..
Intended for the general public. MARQ Gardens. No prior registration is required.
17:00 a 18:00: "LETTING IT FALL".
Tours between Ocean Race and MUBAG, MACA and Museo de Aguas, MARQ and Las Cigarreras with Diana Guijarro, M. Reme Silvestre Linde, Rosana Sánchez and Aris Spentsas.
On average, a museum visitor stands in front of a work of art for between fifteen and thirty seconds. We can add to this the time it takes to extract the information from the poster that accompanies each work. Although almost all of us know how to act inside, sometimes we find it uncomfortable simply because we don't understand. But a space is not defined by itself, it is a swarm of movements, people, ideas, objects, images, norms, sensations or stories. Is it possible to activate something unexpected, something that cannot be seen because it is trapped in the middle or because it is behind what we should see and what we would like to see?
We think that artistic mediation is relational and therefore integrates a performative dimension that concerns bodies, spaces and the understanding of the workings of art. A practice that allows us to generate situated and critical thought from experience and that involves us from an affective point of view. Based on other types of encounters with the public and an alternative use of public and cultural spaces, we propose for this DIM 2025 a series of routes that seek to activate, through mediation, other ways of inhabiting exhibition spaces.
- 17 h. MARQ by Rosana Sánchez and Aris Spentsas.
Registration at https://museosdealicante.com/portfolio-item/rutas-dim25/
17:30 a 18:30: VISIT DRAMATISATION OF THE EXHIBITION CITIES OF LIGHT. Our two protagonists, the magister Marcus Valerius Solanianus Severus and the slave girl Techne, real-life characters from Lucentum (which we know from the inscriptions), will lead us on our visit to the exhibition "Cities of Light", an updated journey through the ancient history of the city of Alicante.
Intended for the general public. MARQ Gardens. No prior registration is required.
Sunday 18 May
Throughout the day, visitors can take part in a Clue Game about the temporary exhibition. "CCities of Light. Ákra Leuké, Lucentum, Laqant" ...
10:00 a 14:00: Workshop "The bird of Lucentum".. Our visitors will make a fun puzzle with the image of a bird painted with the tempera technique. This decoration on a fragment of stucco was found in the excavations carried out in the Tossal de Manises. The image represents a bird in profile and to the left, with its wings folded..
Intended for the general public. MARQ Gardens. No prior registration is required.
11:30 to 12:30: Storytelling and workshop "Cities of Light". In this activity designed for the whole family we will discover curiosities about our ancient Alicante through a story followed by a workshop in which we will paint on a plaster plaque the bird found in the excavations carried out in the Tossal de Manises.
Recommended for children aged 3 to 9 accompanied by an adult. Registration by telephone on 965 149 000 or at the museum's ticket offices.
12:30 a 13:30: VISIT DRAMATISATION OF THE EXHIBITION CITIES OF LIGHT IN THE GARDENS OF THE MARQ. Our two protagonists, the magister Marcus Valerius Solanianus Severus and the slave girl Techne, real-life characters from Lucentum that we know from the inscriptions, will lead us on our visit to the exhibition "Cities of Light", an updated tour of the ancient history of the city of Alicante.
Intended for the general public. MARQ Gardens. No prior registration required
