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| The project is an expedition to the gardens of the city of Murcia to investigate and document the different types of plants that are found in them | The City Museum has prepared an extensive program for the month of November focused on 'Where the myrtles grow', one of the projects selected from Line 1 'Medieval Murcia and Three Cultures' of the Cultural Reactives program.'Where the Mirtos grow' is a dynamic project by Vincent Sáez and Pascual Martínez, an expedition to the gardens of the city of Murcia to investigate and document those places where the different types of plants that make up these spaces live, are born and are identified ."The place chosen to present this initiative is the Museum of the City, due to its evident relationship with history and the very close identification of the building that contains the museum with the Spanish-Muslim garden that surrounds it," said the councilor of Culture and Recovery of Heritage, Jesús Pacheco.Vicente Sáez and Pascual Martínez are two photographers based in Murcia who combine their work as photographers with specialized training, advice on projects and the design of photographic exhibitions.
Taking the garden as a point of reference in common to these three cultures, the artists propose a multidisciplinary visual lexicon based on photography, to reflect on their creation and the relationship they currently have with these spaces from different perspectives.This project has involved creators, cultural technicians, designers, institutions such as the IES Saavedra Fajardo and the José Loustau Museum of the University of Murcia, other administrations and professionals in the assembly of exhibitions and graphic industries.The exhibition, which can be visited until February next year, is aligned with other activities that the museum will host this November.Thus, until January 10 you can see the micro-exhibition 'El Parque Ruiz Hidalgo.
An example of nineteenth-century modernity ', a small exhibition that recalls a disappeared park in the city of Murcia and was the initiative of Ricardo Cordoniu Starico.There will also be carried out, with all the security and cleaning measures, the commented visits 'Gardens, inside and outside', a guided tour by the museum technicians in which the two temporary exhibitions dedicated to the gardens and, later, the Participants will walk through the López-Ferrer orchard.
They will be on Saturdays 14, 21 and 28 and Sunday 15, 22 and 29 November, at 12 noon, and to participate you must register on the website museodelaciudad.murcia.es.
The number of places for each visit is limited to 5 people.Another novelty of the City Museum is that at the end of this month it will add to its permanent collection the sculpture 'Virgen de la Fuensanta with singing children', made by Antonio Campillo in 1957.
In addition, a new museum has been designed by Jose María Nuño de la Rosa, on the second floor of the museum where the piece will be located.Virtual cultureThe new Mudatalab platform of the City Museum has incorporated subtitles to the documentaries that were made for the 10th and 20th anniversary of the Museum in order to make them more accessible.
In addition, more than 30 small videos have been recorded in which the museum's posters and informative texts can be heard through audios.On the other hand, the Instagram, Twitter and Facebook of the City Museum host until next Sunday actions on our social networks to publicize historical and artistic aspects of both the museum and the Municipality of Murcia.'Cultural reagents''Where the Mirtos grow' is one of the projects selected in the 'Cultural Reactives' program of the Murcia City Council, an initiative created to support the cultural sector of the municipality of Murcia, promoting artistic and creative production through an investment of more than the 700,000 euros in direct contracting of the cultural initiatives selected in the nine lines of action.
The program, which has been recognized by Europe as an example of good practice, arose as a result of the paralysis that the cultural sector suffered due to the health crisis of COVID-19.The City Council has allocated a budget of 80,000 euros to the 'Medieval Murcia and the Three Cultures' line for projects that promote values ??such as creativity, innovation, respect, empathy, inclusion, equality, the enhancement of heritage historical (tangible or intangible), sustainability and, in general, responsibility with the environment
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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