On the 29th of January, at 20:00h, the official opening of the temporary exhibition " Lights of Sepharad " will be held in the Archaeological Museum of Murcia.

“ Lights of Sepharad ” includes several of the most important archaeological pieces found in the old Jewish quarter of Lorca, together with some original documents from the Archives of Lorca and Murcia, facsimiles from the National and General History Archives of Simancas and some pieces from the Roman period coming from the Municipal Archaeological Museums of Cartagena, Águilas and Puerto de Mazarrón.

These items and documents are distributed in five different sections according to the five topics on which this exhibition is organised: Jews in Spain, from their origins to the expulsion; Lorca, a border town; The fortified Jewish quarter of Lorca; Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights; and The Synagogue of Lorca.

Among the pieces on display in this exhibition, the most outstanding ones are some fragments of the plasterworks decorating the Aron ha-Kodesh in the Synagogue, twenty glass lamps which used to illuminate the building, tiles, coins and ceramics representing daily life in Late Middle Ages, various fragments of Hanukiah, and oil lamps used in the festival of Hanukkah.

Timetable; Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 20:30. Sunday and holidays from 10:00 to 14:00.