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The future Museum of the Roman Forum, which will house the museographic collection and explain the evolution of the hill over its 2000 years of history, continues its course.

Now it is the turn of the museographic project that has been designed by the company Jesús Moreno y Asociados, and that will end with the work, according to the forecast, in March 2019.

The act of presentation of the project was attended by the councilor of the Culture, Education and Youth area, David Martínez Noguera;

who has been accompanied by the co-director of the excavations of the Roman Forum neighborhood, José Miguel Noguera;

and the person in charge of the company that has designed the museographic project, Jesús Moreno;

the director of the institutional area of ​​the Repsol Foundation, Gonzalo Vázquez;

and the general director of Cultural Assets, Juan Antonio Lorca.

The Museum will be the beginning of the route to the Molinete Archaeological Park and will be located in the basement of the Adarve Street health center.

It is being financed by the Repsol Foundation, promoted by the City of Cartagena and managed by Cartagena Port of Cultures.

The councilor has highlighted the role of museography, since it is what gives character and identity to the exhibition and facilitates the contact between the pieces that are exhibited and the visitors.

For his part, Professor Noguera has indicated that he has been working on this project for more than two years through a work of research, study and selection of materials with the aim of creating a coherent discursive thread that allows visitors to understand how it was the history of the neighborhood and Cartagena.

He has also used to name the concept of resilience applied to architecture and archeology, as the ability of cities to overcome periods of crisis and resurface from their own ashes;

At the same time it has qualified that Cartagena and El Molinete is a paradigmatic example of this.

Jesús Moreno has indicated that the management model of the project consisted in the parallel work of the work and the museography, so that the result has been agreed so that there is a unity between materials, textures, colors, graphic communication and signage.

A TRIP OF THREE PLANTS

The project will be structured around three floors where you can admire and preserve exceptional pieces recovered in the different excavation campaigns with a wide chronology that covers from the 20th to the 3rd century BC. The first floor will house the reception and control of visitors as well as an introductory space on the hill of the Molinete where through a model and an audiovisual the history of the hill will be covered.

This first floor will be completed with a room where the fundamental pieces of all those found in these last years of work will be exhibited in glass cases.

From the domestic objects of the small Marseille, as it was known to the city of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to sculptural pieces such as the horn of plenty and mural paintings as a hunting scene in the amphitheater, two Muses and an Apollo, exceptionally preserved, of the Roman Cartagena.

With the visit to this space, the visitor will have acquired the essential information to visit the archaeological site.

In the intermediate floor, different exhibition spaces will be generated through display cabinets and an amphora that will contain Byzantine and late Roman pieces and a small space of multiple uses.

This area will serve to deepen in these two significant historical moments of the history of the Windlass.

Similarly, from here you can see in detail the road that borders the curia and the volume reconstructed museographically of the meeting room of the senate of the first century.

The last floor, point of connection with the archaeological park, will also have showcases to display objects from Roman times organized according to the buildings in which they were recovered and those that the visitor will then visit throughout the archaeological site.

Accompanying the route along the road, a lapidary with remarkable fragments of stone.

In addition, the Curia will be returned volumetrically to adapt it to the visit.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena