Association "Dr. Maria Reiche - Lines and Figures of the Nasca Culture/Peru"
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Milestones from the chronicle of the association
The detailed chronicle can be downloaded here: 
| April 1st, 1993 | The state Peru presents a bronze bust of Maria Reiche the city Dresden. The formal unveiling is held in the assembly hall of the high school "Romain Rolland". |
| February 1994 | The first Nasca-expedition of Dresden takes place. |
| July 14th, 1994 | The association "Dr. Maria Reiche – Linien und Figuren der Nasca-Kultur in Peru" is established in Dresden. |
| December 1994 | The soil drawings are added to the World Cultural Heritage List of the UNESCO. |
| 1995 | At the University of Applied Sciences Dresden, faculty of Surveying and Cartography the research project "Nasca" is found. |
| July/August 1996 | Members of the association carry out the second Nasca-expedition. |
| March 6th, 1997 | The exhibition "From Dresden to Peru – The life work of Dr. Maria Reiche and the lines of Nazca/Peru" is opened in the town hall of Dresden. |
| June 8th, 1998 | Maria Reiche dies in Lima/Peru at the age of 95 years. |
| Sept. 17th, 1998 | The author Erich von Däniken visits the University of Applied Sciences Dresden to inform himself about the research project "Nasca". |
| June 8th, 2001 | On the occasion of the anniversary of Maria Reiche’s death our association donate a commemorative plaque for her grave in San Pablo/Peru. |
| February/March 2003 | Members of the association carry out the third Nasca-expedition.
On the 5th of March the project is presented at the Peruvian Congress in Lima. |
| May 5th, 2003 | The exhibition “The Nasca lines – Exhibition to the 100th birthday of Maria Reiche” is opened in the town hall of Dresden. |
| May 14th, 2003 | Within the context of the exhibition students of the University of Applied Sciences Dresden, faculty of Surveying and Cartography, modell the hummingbird at the meadows near the river Elbe in Dresden. |
| May 21th, 2003 | The peruvian ambassador A. Novoa visits the exhibition and a lecture on the research project "Nasca" in Dresden. He registers himself in the Golden Book of the city Dresden. |
| August/Sept. 2004 | 4th Nasca- Expedition together with staff members and students of the Universities of Applied Sciences Dresden and Berlin and the Technical University Prague. |
| August/Sept. 2005 | Members of the Nasca project carry out the 5th Nasca-Expedition together with artists from Germany, Austria and Brazil in order to prepare the projects: "Nasca, on the Perspectives" and "Lines to the Light". |
| 30. Oct. 2005 | Inauguration of the street "Maria Reiche" in Dresden-Klotzsche. |
| 24. March 2006 | Opening of the exhibition "Maria Reiche" at the School Museum in Dresden. |
| Bielefeld: June 2006 |
"Nasca - Correspondences" Exhibition at the ZiF Bielefeld |
| Bielefeld: June 21-23, 2006 |
Interdisciplinary Symposium Nasca Culture at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) Bielefeld |
| December 2006 | The Nasca project is presented at the Geoexpo (VI. International Congress of Geo-technology) in Lima/Peru. The presentation was awarded as the best presentation in the domain of applied Geo-technologies. |
| Sept. 2007 | Opening of the exhibition "Maria Reiche and the Nasca Lines" at the "Kreative Werkstatt" Dresden. |
| April/May 2008 | The exhibition "Nasca-Correspondences" is opened at the Sparkasse Hannover. |
| June 25th, 2008 | 10th Anniversary of the death of Dr. Maria Reiche: Commemorative Event in the grammar school "Romain-Rolland" in Dresden. |
| August 2008 | The exhibition "Correspondências Nasca" is opened in São Paulo/Brazil. |
| Sept. 2008 | Members of the Nasca project leave for the Sixth Nasca-Expedition. |
| March 2009 | Opening of the exhibition "Nasca-Correspondences" at the Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim. |
| Sept./Okt. 2009 | The exhibition "Nasca-Correspondences" is shown at the Kunstturm Rotenburg. |
| Nov. 2009 | W. Dorninger presents his book "Verschwinden Perspektive Utopie" at the Akustikon in Linz/Austria.. |
| August/Sept. 2010 | The 7the Nasca-Expedition takes place. |
| Jan.-Dec. 2011 | The exhibition "Maria Reiche and the Nasca-Project Dresden" is shown at the library of the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Dresden. |
| 01. July 2011 | During the "Long Night of Sciences in Dresden", about 500 visitors come to the HTW library to attend the Nasca exhibition and lectures. |
| Sept. 2011 | The eighth Nasca expedition started. |
| October 2012 | The cross-school project"Dr. Maria Reiche - eine Dresdnerin in Peru" was launched in Dresden. |
| 02. May 2013 | As part of the school project, a graffiti is created at the Maria-Reiche-Street in Dresden-Klotzsche. |
| 15. May 2013 | The school project will be presented to the public at the celebration of Maria Reiche's 110th birthday. |
| August 2013 | The ninth Nasca expedition takes place. |
| 06. February 2014 | With a festive event at the secondary school in Dresden-Weixdorf, the cross-school project "Dr. Maria Reiche - Eine Dresdnerin in Peru " was finished. |
| May 2014 | In the Dresden theater Societaetstheater the play "I am not a lady - I am an old floor" premiered F.A.U.S.T. reloaded. |
| Sept. 2014 | Members of the association started for the tenth Nasca expedition. |
| Aug.-Okt. 2016 | The exhibition "Maria Reiche and the lines of Nasca" is located in the Kultur-Bahnhof Radebeul-Ost. |
| September 2016 | During the 11. Nasca expedition, the Nasca project's staff was honored by the Mayor of Nasca for their many years of work as "visitantes illustres de Nasca". |
| Oktober 2017 | The exhibition "The Nasca project - 22 years of German-Czech research in Peru" was held at the Technical University of Prague. |
| July-Sept. 2018 | For the Dresden Long Night of Sciences on June 15, 2018, the exhibition "The Nasca project - 22 years of German-Czech research in Peru" opened. The exhibition was open until mid-September 2018. |
| Febr.-March 2020 | The 12. Nasca expedition is an interdisciplinary field campaign involving geoscientists from several countries and different disciplines. |
| 15. May 2023 | Maria Reiche's 120th birthday is celebrated with a festive event at the high school Romain Rolland in Dresden. |
| Sept. 2023 | The 13. Nasca expedition is an interdisciplinary field campaign to continue the work of 2020, involving geoscientists from several countries. |