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The Department of Culture will carry out more than a dozen activities

Murcia tomorrow celebrates International Museum Day with activities in four municipal museum (Museo Ramón Gaya Museum of Science and Water, City Museum and Space Molinos del Rio Stables)

The City Museum will celebrate with a guided tour 'The museum, treasure chest' which will be held tomorrow and 19 and May 20 every hour during museum opening hours.

This visit to the Museum facilities include spaces that are normally restricted and shows the most significant pieces of the collection.

Intended for all audiences interested in understanding the internal dynamics of a museum.

It is also scheduled to hold the workshop 'Tell us your stories' (the same day from 18 to 20 h.) The Museum pieces evoke memories, those memories create stories that feed it.

This workshop is aimed at people over 65 who can contribute memories and experiences on all parts and contents of the museum.

Registration is free but require a minimum of 4 persons for the workshop.

Also on Thursday 19, at 20 hours, will open the second edition of the exhibition 'Found Murcia.

Seven sites, seven artists', part of Murcia Three Cultures International Festival.

At the Museum of Science and Water has also organized a special program.

Tomorrow will be an open house from 10 to 20 hours and children's global session 'Milo travels through the Solar System', at 17.30 (aimed at children from 5 to 8 years, all children must be accompanied by an adult .)

Adults will also enjoy the planetarium with the session 'The memory of the stars', to be held at 19 hours.

Another activity is "Adventure-T 'in which visitors will have to solve a series of scientific puzzles, finding the answers in different rooms of the Museum (17 to 20 hours)

For its part, Ramón Gaya Museum, all day tomorrow, from 10 to 22 hours, there will be an open day, which will be given a rose to all visitors.

At 19.30 hours will be held the tour 'Other ways of viewing the permanent collection of the Museum' with one exception guides: Cristóbal Belda, Professor of Art History at the University of Murcia, and Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga, Professor of Literature UMU.

Space Río_Caballerizas Mills made visits to museums Hydraulic, where visitors can take a tour of the Museum's history and see the mill in operation.

Also, from the terrace of the building will see a magnificent view of the river Segura and several of the most emblematic buildings of the city (Old Bridge, City Hall, Cathedral, Episcopal Palace ...) The visitor may make extraordinary photographs of the urban environment from this space .

The tours, which will be both Spanish and English, will take place at 11, 12,13, 17 and 18 hours.

Also, tomorrow at 19 hours, the professor, Department of Art History at the University of Murcia, Concepcion de la Peña, will be shown around the museum in which delve into the history of this landmark building of civil architecture of Murcia.

The theme chosen this year for the Museum Day by the International Council of Museums (the body which in 1977 established the celebration of International Museum Day on 18 May) is' Museum and memory. "

The argument is based on is that "the memories and museums tell the story.

Objects held in their collections essential to the memory of the communities in which we live.

Such objects are an expression of our cultural heritage.

With this celebration we will have the opportunity to discover or rediscover our individual and collective memory. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia