Alicante Archaeological Museum
More visitors than ever before visited the Alicante Archaeological Museum last year.More than 250,000 people went through the turnstiles in 2009.Last week the museum opened its new exhibition.”Seramon,the Enigma of the Mummy” examines ancient Egypts funeral rites.it will run until October.There has been close collaboration between the MARQ and museums in France,including the Louvre.
The exhibition contains 30 Egyptian objects actually discovered in Alicante Province.Museums in Villajoyosa ,Guardamar de Segura ,LÁlcudia de Elche ,Creveillente and the MARQ itself.The staging of the exhibition is spectacular and it is also interactive.It is conceived in the form of a detective story,showing the latest forensic technology used to construct the history,very similar to a CSI story.
There are 260 exhibits and there are complete mummies of Seramon and Ankhpakhered ,along with their wonderful tombs.The exhibition is hoping to answer many of the questions which people ask about the mysteries behind the rituals practised by the Egyptians at that time.