Temporary Exhibition "Exótica in Militaria"
From 20/06/2017 to 22/10/2017. Every week, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
The Army Museum presents a temporary exhibition to remember and pay tribute to an era (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), in which science and the military come together to promote the scientific and industrial development of Spain. The exhibition has an essentially didactic and informative basis aimed at a general, non-specialist public, whose main message is to disseminate this military contribution to the scientific and industrial development of the nation at that time.
Military collections, not always available to the viewer, are repositories of an important heritage: historical, scientific, technical and artistic. The objects that compose them constitute in themselves a kind of secret museum, which has been intended to be brought to light in the form of a temporary exhibition.
The exhibition reminds us of the old cabinets of curiosities. It is in the proliferation of these cabinets and the collection of all kinds of objects considered strange, rare or spectacular, where the birth of future museums of natural history, anthropology or fine arts has its origin. But they also favor the development of science, in particular that of chemistry, which will replace alchemy. This activity is once again fashionable by the great collectors of the nineteenth century, who recover the taste for collecting objects of all kinds, in order to use them as a symbol of their social situation. And the military establishment is no stranger to any of these activities.
Exotica in Militaria is articulated in two exhibition levels that complement each other to achieve the objective pursued by the exhibition.
Videos
Images
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Bellas Artes
Bandeja damasquinada y repujada realizada en el Taller Artístico de la Fábrica de Armas de Toledo - Año 1801 -
Concha marina gigante
Enorme concha marina de 75 Kg. -
Plantas
Helecho de la isla de Madeira (Colección Romero Ortiz, Museo del Ejército) -
Minerales
Cinabrio - Museo de Farmacia Militar -
Bodegón pétreo
Colecciones Históricas - IES El Greco (Toledo) -
Armadura Sultán DATO DE ILLIGAN
Coraza con peto y espalda y faldellín -
Aparato de producción de luz
Pertenece a la Academia de Artillería -
Retrato al óleo de Romero Ortiz
Romero Ortiz fue un gran coleccionista español