On October 31, at 20:30 h., The Canary Museum organizes "A Night in the Museum", an unusual way to visit the scientific society exhibition. Visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy an evening tour that will lead them to discover the rich archaeological heritage of Gran Canaria in a different environment.
"Scenography of Death" is the title of this extraordinary visit focused on the funeral practices of the ancient canaries. Death is a universal fact, but not the way in which the body of the deceased is prepared, buried, exposed or cremated, remembered, visited, or even erased from memory, for all this is part of the norms that each human group, every culture, builds and defines around death. Mortuary practices are, above all, social scenarios through which the relationships and ways of life of each community are legitimized, reproduced and negotiated. Therefore, the gestures that are unfolded around death tell us about social identity: of the identity of each person and of the identity of the collective. Therefore, studying these behaviors in the societies of the past allows us to delve into their way of understanding and being in the world.
But what do we know today about the practices deployed by the canaries around their dead? How were the deceased prepared? What characteristics define your cemeteries? What do some unique gestures respond to? What role was given to the deceased? On this night tour, centered on the Verneau and Bosch halls, the archaeologist Teresa Delgado Darias, curator of The Canary Museum, will offer some keys to funeral practices in the pre-Hispanic Gran Canaria.
The tour will last approximately 45 minutes. The activity is free for the members of The Canary Museum and will cost 5 euros for the general public. Places are limited, so it is necessary to register in advance through the form that is available in http://cort.as/-TakA. Enrollment per person is required.