Benidorm remembers its past of sailors and captains with an exhibition in Boca Calvari
The exhibition can be visited until next November 15
More than 50 individuals have temporarily handed over the pieces and objects that fill three floors of the museum
If a few days ago an exhibition recalled the historical relationship of Benidorm with the trap, another sample now regains the link of the city with the Merchant Marine. The Mayor, Toni Pérez, and Councilor for Historic Heritage, Ana Pellicer, inaugurated last night at Boca Calvari Museum the exhibition 'The legacy of our sailors', a review of a past full of sailors, captains, posits, ships, vapors and charts.
The exhibition was commissioned by Antonio Couto, director of the Historical Heritage area of the City Council, and by Eusebi Chiner and César Evangelio; it can be visited until next November 15; and it has been possible "thanks to the altruistic collaboration" of more than 50 individuals who have temporarily handed over the pieces and objects that fill the three floors of the museum, as the mayor said yesterday.
During the inauguration, Pérez emphasized that this exhibition was "a pending question" and at the same time "a challenge", and he valued "the fantastic choral work" carried out by the Historical Patrimony team and by the curators of the exhibition, who have invested numerous hours to investigate, document and capture the marine past of Benidorm.
The mayor emphasized that "those men" of the Merchant Navy "saw the world when nobody could do it" which has, without doubt, configured the character of the city. Their women, who were waiting in Benidorm, were the ones who guarded the exotic and curious objects brought from overseas trips and now populated the windows of the second floor of Boca Calvari. Among these objects, which in many cases have far surpassed the century of life, there are games of Chinese porcelain, manila shawls, fans made in the Philippines, polveras, slide viewers, parasols and even a screen.
The Councilor for Historic Heritage thanked "the families who have given us these treasures, theirs, to make even greater the treasure that is this exhibition," whose purpose is "to spread and preserve the traditions and history of our city."
The story of the exhibition, which begins with video projections and a text of the recently deceased Josefina Orts i Bosch, is articulated from the pieces contributed by families from Benidorm as a cabin table, a steam sink, binoculars, horns, compasses and other guidance devices, calculating notebooks, nautical slides, traveling trunks, caulking tools or uniform garments. Eusebio Chiner pointed out that "The legacy of our sailors" is "an open exhibition" and the result of "nearly two years of work", and said that "all the contents of the sample will be collected in a catalog" next weeks.