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Museo Nacional de Antropología (Madrid)

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Established
  
1875

Website
  
mnantropologia.mcu.es

Founded
  
1875

Location
  
Madrid, Spain

Province
  
Community of Madrid

Phone
  
+34 915 30 64 18

Museo Nacional de Antropología (Madrid)

Type
  
Archaeological and ethnographic

Address
  
Calle de Alfonso XII, 68, 28014 Madrid, Spain

Hours
  
Open today · 9:30AM–8PMWednesday9:30AM–8PMThursday9:30AM–8PMFriday9:30AM–8PMSaturday9:30AM–8PMSunday10AM–3PMMondayClosedTuesday9:30AM–8PMSuggest an edit

Public transit access
  
Madrid Atocha railway station

Similar
  
Museum of the Americas, Museum Cerralbo, Museo Nacional de Artes, Museum of Romanticism, Museo del Traje

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The National Museum of Anthropology (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Antropología) is a national museum of Spain, located in Madrid near the Parque del Buen Retiro and opposite Atocha railway and metro station. It is considered the oldest anthropology museum in Spain, formally inaugurated on April 29, 1875, during the reign of Alfonso XII.

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History

Dr Pedro González de Velasco promoted his project of a museum of Anatomy and assembled the early collections. The focus later passed from physical to cultural anthropology.

Structure

Each of its three floors is dedicated to a different subject:

  • Ground floor. The Asia hall, devoting a special attention to the culture of the Philippines, a Spanish colony until 1898, with many items taken from an 1885 exposition in nearby Retiro Park. It also dedicates side rooms to temporary exhibitions and a Wunderkammer giving an impression of the early exhibitions including a plaster cast and the skeleton of the "Extremaduran Giant" (Agustín Luengo Capilla), and statues and plaster casts of several racial types.
  • First floor. The Africa hall, with a prominent representation of the culture of Equatorial Guinea, a Spanish colony until 1959.
  • Second floor. The Americas hall, covering indigenous peoples of the Americas, with items like Jivaro reduced heads, Andean Carnival masks, and Inuit sun glasses.

    • A lecture hall allows performances of traditional music and dances and lectures.

    References

    Museo Nacional de Antropología (Madrid) Wikipedia
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