Temporary Exhibitions

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The temporary exhibitions organized by the Museum try to bring near the public in a general way, the more important characteristics of the Prehistory and the Ancient History. The exhibitions are designed in a didactic, but rigorous, way, where are clarified so many topics that darken the vision that the public has about our History. Exhibitions begin as temporary ones in the Museum seat, but they are designed over a flexible support to facilitate their itinerance by other cultural and educative centres. The exhibitions complete with the edition of some catalogues, the making of some didactic unities and one multimedia presentation that it is offered at each inauguration.

Also are produced other series of exhibitions titulated "Pioneiros da Arqueoloxía", thinked with the objective of givving homage and, perhaps, rescue of oblition, to our ancestors, the pioneers of archaeology in Galicia.

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Present Exhibition

Archaeology Pioneers. “Fermín Bouza-Brey (1901 – 1973)”.

Friend of Nós Group and founder of the Seminario de Estudos Galegos, his main concern was the study of signs of identity and the roots of Galicia. After the Civil War, dissolved the Seminario, based in the company of other scholars Instituto de Padre Sarmiento de Estudos Galegos.

He, co-authored by Cuevillas, we have the first major synthesis of Prehistory Galician, along the lines marked by his teacher H. Obermaier. His attitude worries and concern that was on many other disciplines led him to publish a huge amount of articles of the most varied, with the aim of publicizing the peculiarities of History, Art and Literature of our country, this is where its main virtue lies, documentation dun cultural heritage, especially archaeological, without which their work would be lost forever.

Avaliable for its itinerance (7 rigid panels of 120 X 90 cm).

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Previous Exhibitions

A Dominación Romana.

The temporary exhibition “A Dominación Romana”, continues a series of exhibitions destined to bring to the society the more notable characteristics of the prehistory and Archaeology of Galicia. It presents, in a nice and didactic way, the particularities of the Roman invasion and domination of our country, givving a special treatment to the reaction of the natives to this attempt of annihilation of the autochthonous culture and society. The acculturation of the native societies was made in a desigual way, talking about its intensity and geographic distribution.

Avaliable for its itinerance (7 flexible panels of 120 X 90 cm).

Archaeology Pioneers. “Federico Maciñeira y Pardo de Lama (1870 – 1943)”.

Mr. Federico Guillermo Maciñeira Pardo de Lama was born in Santa María de Mogor (Mañón, A Coruña) in the day of Setember, 3 at 1870. He starts the studies of bachelor in A Corunha and Ferrol, abandon them to ocupes of his properties in the part of Ortegal. Maciñeira was a man of his time, In spite of the aparent isolation that semmed keep him separated in Lama and Ortigueira he was usually informed of the archaeological excavations done in Spain and Europe thanks to his good collection of books and investigation magazines that had arrived to his home, a lot of them was expresion organs of the different scientific societies of that he was member.

The day 25 de january of 1943 he deads in his home of Ortigueira. In his testament he establish that his collections was leaven to the University of Santiago de Compostela (comissioning to it the Professor Luis Monteagudo García), that was created triannual award for scientific works, and that was publicated posthumously his book. “Bares. Puerto Hispano de la Primitiva Navegación Occidental”. Publicated in 1945 by his family, with the revision of Fermín Bouza Brey, to comply with his last wishes.

From an archaeological perspective, his more important contributions were the study of the tumulus of the part of Ortegal, of the castros of this area, and his archaeological excavations that are some of the first controls with scientific character made in Galicia. The publication of this works in publications of our land and of the Iberian Peninsula converted him in the most notable Galician archaeologist of his time, and the most distinguished in internacional circles.

Avaliable for its itinerance (7 rigid panels of 120 X 90 cm).

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Os Habitantes dos Castros.

The Castrexo Cultural Phenomenom Fenómeno developes from the last stages of the Bronze Age to end at the  starts of the Middle Ages, with its apogee at Iron Age and Roman Time. Whitin this cultural phenomenom bloom a series of cultures that develope in the time under the common denominator of the castro (hillfort), settlement that gives the nome to this phenomenom.

  In these time the castros were changing their location type and their morphologhical characteristics, while changes in their internal organization and their landscape exploitation are documented.

The geographical distribution of the castrexo is located in a Norwest area of the Iberian Peninsule that includes Galicia, O Bierzo, the Occident of Asturias, the North of Portugal from the Vouga river, and other neighbouring areas.

Traditionally it was used to relate the Castrexo Phenomenom to the Celtics, today is confirmed his genesis from the evolution of the previous indigenous world and the contact with the rest of European cultures of the time. In the castrexa  society some authours liked to see certain fighter character, but that it´s not true.

The economy was based, like in the previous times, in agriculture and cattle raising, using as one complement  the harvesting of wild froits, the fishing, the operation of marine resources, and, in smaller quantity, the hunting. Comercial relations was promoted, especially with the Mediterranean, also with the minning activities.

In the material culture we observed a great developement in the ceramics and also in the work of metals, specially in gold work. Even so, they also continue making stone pieces.

Avaliable for its itinerance (7 flexible panels of 120 X 90 cm).

This exhibition after it was shown in the Museum, was in the Casa da Cultura of Mondoñedo, in the Museo Histórico de Sargadelos, Oficina de Turismo de Ribadeo and Centro Cultural Carvalho Calero de Ferrol, Museo Comarcal de A Fonsagrada and Escola Habaneira de Roupar.

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