Rocsen Museum
A place for every taste
«Only culture, peace and love will be able to give an end to human suffering» (J.S.B.)
History of the Rocsen Museum
The Rocsen Museum has a very particular frontage, it has 49 statues that represent the evolution of thought, starting from the Africanus to Martín Luther King. Every chosen character represents different human beings gifted with similar characteristics. The statues are 49 because it's the mystic number (seven times seven). This number determined the width of the frontage.
«The truth must be made known»
Sophocles was born about 496 BC in Colonus Hippius and at a young age became one of the great tragedians of the golden age. He was the son of a wealthy merchant and was provided with the best traditional aristocratic education.
He is one of three ancients Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. He wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The women of Trachis, Oedipus the king, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.
The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and also Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban Plays.
King of Baroque and the queen of science
We can also talk about Marie Curie a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, was, among other achievements, the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes in different fields, physics and chemistry, and the first female professor at the University of Paris.
A naturalistic frenchman of the 18th Century
- The concept of organization of living beings.
- The clear division of the organic world from the inorganic.
- A revolutionary classification of animals according to their complexity.
- Formulation of the first theory of biological evolution