Molinete Roman Forum Museum, Cartagena (Spain)

About

Located in Molinete Archaeological Park, in the historic center of Cartagena, the museum occupies the ground level and basement of the health center. The project was drafted – with the building of the Roman Curia already excavated –, with the intention of preserving the remains found and also of creating groups of spaces that would permit a volumetric restitution of a large portion of the building. In this sense, the project goes back to the decisions made in 2009, and has a collective spirit: it is the result of a city strategy, and hopes to become a cultural space connecting old and new. The main aim of the museum is to orderly fit in the magnificent pieces found over the years in the Molinete excavations. It also offers the possibility of connecting with the site, as the beginning of a route throughout the whole archaeologcial space. The intervention unfolds on three floors: the first connects with the exterior street and becomes a reception area for visitors. This level contains the general services and traces a first hall where many unique pieces are situated. The main hall is built with direct materials, steel sheet on walls, resin on floors, concrete ceilings and sisal wall coverings that evoke a material tradition and shelter from noise so that the pieces can become the key elements in the space.

Sources

• Arquitectura Viva