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The Museum of Iberian Art Mula Cigarralejo, under the Ministry of Culture and Spokesperson, closing this Sunday, March 27, the exhibition "The time stopped.
The photographic legacy of Square Emeterio Diaz '.
This is therefore the last week to see the 40 images displayed file murciano staff engineer, discoverer of muleño site to which he devoted forty years of his life.
The photographs on display at the museum are kept mostly in the General Archive of the Region of Murcia, although there are also images provided by the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid and other family of Isasa Square.
Also, numerous personal items like some cameras, notes on his archaeological work and travel notebooks is.
The general director of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas, encouraged all Murcia to visit this exhibition and discover "the great importance of the figure of Emeterio Cuadrado in the region of Murcia and in the world of archeology, a passion to which he devoted much of his life working tirelessly in El Cigarralejo and later founded the Association of Friends of Archaeology ".
'The time stopped' "has already been visited by more than 1,500 people, including many schoolchildren who have approached the world of archeology, after the close in the Cigarralejo can be seen in other rooms in the region and in areas of Albacete , Castellón and Madrid, "recalled the director general of Cultural Property.
The muleño museum is divided into several areas that relate to the lives of Emeterio Cuadrado, his job as an engineer and his work as an archaeologist, the site of the Cigarralejo, the creation of the museum and its legacy, the Association of Friends of the Archaeology in Madrid.
To complete the exhibition project, the Association of Friends of the Museum of Iberian Art The Cigarralejo has published a catalog of about 250 pages, plus photographs of the sample and an object of the exhibition, it includes several articles on Square written by numerous friends and collaborators.
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the work done by the Documentation Centre of Archaeology and Heritage of the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Iberian Art Museum Cigarralejo and the Museum of the University of Murcia, with several partners.
It will be open Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 to 14:00, and on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 11:00 to 14:00.
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Square Emeterio Diaz (1907-2002) is considered one of the fathers of archeology.
Civil Engineer, Channels and Ports of profession, soon discovered his vocation for archeology, which led him to excavate and study for 40 years the Iberian complex Cigarralejo and to found the Association of Friends of Archaeology (Asamar).
After studying in Madrid, he was sent to Cartagena as project manager in Taibilla Channel.
Later, she married to Maria del Rosario Isasa and father of six children, promoted as deputy mayor of Cartagena creating the Municipal Archaeological Museum.
His fondness for archeology grew with the discovery of several deposits during construction of the canal, and the Iberian complex Cigarralejo (village sanctuary and necropolis), discovered in 1945, devoted his life.
Along with the excavations of the necropolis, built even a small house which he called 'Hotel Necropol' and which passed specialists and professors from Spain, France, Portugal and Germany, as well as students of the University of Murcia interested in the topic .
The result of his research was the publication by the Superior Council for Scientific Research of the regalia of more than 300 tombs, whose findings have provided guidance for the work of the iberistas of later generations.
His research earned him international recognition and continue to have full effect.
Source: CARM
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