they have now recorded collect drones or orthophotos or to configure computer operations, in the 30s The last century of the last century involved a long process of drawing, planimetry, photographing and development. This evolution in archaeological study faithfully documentary file MARQ, a department launched in 2005, Preserve this reading of the history of the province and also to continue Digitization as a strategy to preserve the integrity of these testimonies and also to make them available to researchers.
The bottom can reach 150,000 documentsI already know 95,000 digitizedthanks to his work, Miguel Benito Iborrathe archaeozoologist responsible for this task since 2005. Plans, drawings, texts, technical reports, photographs or excavation reports are part of this documentation.
file covers since 1932when did it open Alicante Archaeological Museum at the bottom Provincial Palace, take advantage of the visit Niceto Alcalá-Zamora to the city, “The beginning is the old collection of that center’s library that was moved here and introduced in 2005,” says the person in charge of the archive.
Collections and backgrounds
The importance of this file exclusive collections Recognizing the importance of the preservation and development of archaeological excavations in the province. Among them, Figueras Pacheco, Father Belda, Vicente Martínez Morellá anyone Enrique Llobregat.
“Necessary” to learn about the Figueras Pacheco collection, Alicante and the history of the museum. “All the excavations went through here,” says Miguel Benito Iborra. “There old photos of Albufereta, Documentation, drawings and memoirs of the excavations started at that time at Tossal de Manises and Illeta de El Campello».
A very interesting part of this legacy drawings he made from the pieces he foundthen he painted it with a brush and delivered it to Such and Serra printing houses to reproduce it on a kind of postcard.
There is also a basic encyclopedic work owned by Figueras Pacheco. Alicante State Geography, related to Career and Candi, It was published in 1915. “We have the original and it contains all the heritage and all the history of the province from town to town”.
family Martinez Morella, state historian, president Institute of Alicante Studieslater Gil-Albert and the chairman of the Provincial Monuments Commission handed over the entire photographic collection to MARQ.
Another of the important collections to be highlighted is Glass plates by Sánchez de Pradoallowing with stereoscopic viewer We exposed all the information these plates provide to the modern and contemporary room to see them in 3D. “It was a family that traveled a lot. Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1905documenting, Alfonso XIII’s visit to Alicante waves first bonfires from the city. Collects tradition and Alicante urbanism, walks. We have thousands of plaques.”
In 2005, the entire documentary legacy of first director Enrique Llobregat Alicante Archaeological Museum When I was in the basement of the County Council. “Here we have an impressive collection of graphics that the family gave us, from all the photos he took in the 60s, from his graduate school in Palestine and Israel, where he studied, to his excavations, his visits. drawings, national congresses he attended…».
The Tossal site also has some memoirs that are “volumes and volumes” and all graphic and documentary documents. MARQ project, “This was done in 1999 and this revealed the contents of the museum.”
The archive contains documentary elements from the first room opened on the ground floor of the Provincial Palace to the actual transfer of the museum. “This everything is in folders and most is already digitized». In addition, there are exhibition materials of our own production and graphic documentation of international samples coming to MARQ».
Other important background is that of the press. «We have all the published news about provincial heritage, archeology, folklore. we have a collection From the 60s to 2000, already partially cataloged».
It has also been digitized MARQ’s permanent collection, “It was the first thing we did in 2005 because it was essential to the normal functioning of the museum, because these pieces are still required daily for researchers to document a transfer or to document.”
history of a society
“There’s a great deal of the province’s archaeological history here,” says MARQ director Manuel Olcina. “There are also photographs from other museums such as Dénia, Alcoy, especially from the 30s and 40s, from the beginning of archeology in Alicante.”
Treat files as “memory of a society and we have an obligation not to lose this documentary heritage ». To this end, “current media tells us hide them and access them without manipulationso they can be used “risk-free”.
And that is the ultimate aim of the work of this documentary archive, «pour all this funds on the internet». Above all, says Olcina, is the photographic and documentary legacy of the period. first half of the 20th century. “You should examine what and how we remove it.”
According to him it is “an essential museum service” and there are many who are involved in this section, “but we we made it so strong because this is the documentary memory of the museum and we have tried to ensure that it has continuity and goals, we do this thanks to Miguel’s perseverance».