Nueva Tabarca, a paradigm of multidisciplinar heritage (2): Museum and Cultural Property

As many know, New Tabarca is actually a tiny archipelago that comprises one main island, Isla Plana, plus three small islands (La Cantera, La Galera and La Nao), and a number of pitfalls, which has greatly hindered Navigation around these just over 30 hectares emerged near to the nearby coast of Alicante.

I explained in the previous article in this series: New Tabarca holds an amazing multidisciplinary heritage, reason why it was raised the creation of a museum to deal in an orderly manner, intelligible, ultimately teaching the many interrelated aspects contains such heritage.

In line with the canons of the “New Museum” trend, the New Museum Tabarca has the philosophy of  “open museum”, multidisciplinary, open to the society, and responsive to their concerns, starting with the inhabitants of the island, anchored in a unique biotope, heirs of a history, full of customs and traditions that are part of a large catalog of cultural property, which as they relate to New Tabarca are reflected, interpreted and disseminated by the museum institution.

In this vein, the New Museum Tabarca adheres and works in an ambitious project in terms of conservation, documentation and dissemination of knowledge assets as it’s S.O.S. Spanish Coastline project, a brilliant and necessary initiative by José B. Ruiz, in which, once again, we see how the common heritage encompasses a vast range of cultural landmarks that are integrated into their natural environment as part of a pool of assets placed in the landscape, being this one more of them.

In short, New Tabarca is an emblematic example of this, trying to avoid the otherwise isolated between man and nature, ultimately, eliminate breaks between man and land, giving the landscape its coherence and corresponding cultural dimension.

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