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ARCHIVED - Marble floor restoration delays opening of Roman Forum museum in Cartagena
Visitor numbers up by 33 per cent at the Roman Theatre Museum, the most popular tourist attraction in Cartagena
The opening of the Roman Forum museum in Cartagena has been delayed by the restoration of a richly decorated 2,000-year-old marble floor, costing over 950,000 euros, but the Town Hall reports that construction work on the museum building will be completed by the end of October.
Once the building work has finished the three floors will be prepared to house 300 items which have been selected as permanent exhibits at the museum, which will welcome visitors to the 18,000-square-metre site. These exhibits include paintings of two muses, Calliope and Terpsichore, the god Apollo and a hunting scene as well as others illustrating the long history of the city through ceramics, sculpture and metal utensils.
Visitors will enter the museum from Calle Adarve to follow a route leading down the slope along walkways which allow them to see the marble floor, although they will not be allowed to walk on it. Since the archaeological site was opened to the public in 2011 the entrance has been in Calle Balcones Azules next to the old Roman baths, but the new route for tourists will go in the opposite direction.
The remaining objects found during the excavation will be stored at a municipal facility in the Cabezo Baeza industrial estate.
The Roman Forum Museum is expected to attract a large number of visitors, and the popularity of the ancient structures belonging to the Roman city of Cartago Nova is illustrated by the fact that the Roman Theatre Museum continues to be the most popular museum in the whole of the Region of Murcia. In the first nine months of this year it welcomed 185,000 visitors, registering an increase of 33 per cent over the equivalent period in 2018, well ahead of the next most visited attractions offered by the Puerto de Culturas organization.
These included the panoramic lift (99,000 visitors), the Castillo de la Concepción (76,000) and the tourist catamaran (61,000), while the archaeological site of the Roman Forum was visited by over 41,000 people.
Among non-Spanish visitors it is reported that the most significant increases over the last year have been in the numbers of German and American tourists, but the largest single source of international visitors remains the UK.