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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]
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.
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)
Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (20 P) P. Museo del Prado (2 C, 6 P) ... This page was last edited on 17 February 2024, at 23:06 (UTC).
The Museo de América is an art, archaeology, and ethnography museum in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the whole of the Americas from the Paleolithic period to the present day. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture. Gallery formerly arranged to recall the Cabinet of Natural History that preceded the ...
The Museum of the Royal Mint ... is a permanent exhibition in the Spanish Royal Mint in Madrid, ... This page was last edited on 26 April 2024, at 18:26 ...
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 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.