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The museum was founded in 1867 by a Royal Decree of Isabella II as a depository for numismatic, archaeological, ethnographical and decorative art collections of the Spanish monarchs. The establishment of the museum was predated by a previous unmaterialised proposal by the Royal Academy of History in 1830 to create a museum of antiquities. [2]
National Archaeological Museum of Spain; Museum of the Americas; Museo de San Isidro (History of Madrid from prehistory to the transferring of the royal court to the Village in 1561) Madrid History Museum (History of Madrid from 1561 to present day) Temple of Debod; House-Museum of Lope de Vega; Pantheon of Illustrious Men; Platform 0 ...
The museum exhibits some paleontological findings such as a skull of cave bear found in Patones in 1971, the biggest ever found in the Iberian Peninsula. [3]The part of the museum devoted to the Roman period includes a number of epigraphic pieces and an important collection of Roman mosaics from Complutum, the Roman-era Alcalá de Henares.
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MADRID (Reuters) - One of Spain's top museums welcomed a U.S. court decision allowing it to keep a French impressionist painting looted from a Jewish woman by the Nazis, which the museum said it ...
The museum was established by the Spanish State and its initial pieces came from the former collection of American archaeological and ethnographic artifacts from the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid and the Prado Museum, as well as exhibiting a number of unrelated donations, deposits and purchases. [1]
The Cerralbo Museum (Spanish: Museo Cerralbo) is an art museum in Madrid, Spain. It houses the art and historical object collections of Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, Marquis of Cerralbo, who died in 1922. [1] It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture.