The Iberian civilisation
Sculpture and inscriptions from eastern Spain's pre-Roman culture, the museum's strong point.
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The early sections on the Stone Age and its tools usually appeal, and the display is modern and visual. But the museum is educational in character with limited interactivity, so very young children may lose interest.
Much smaller and narrower: this is provincial and focused on eastern Spain, while the national museum in Madrid covers the whole peninsula. But the Iberian section here is particularly strong, because this region was itself a centre of that civilisation.
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A museum covering the history of the Valencia region from the Stone Age through the Roman and Visigothic periods, occupying part of the Centre Cultural La Beneficència, a nineteenth-century building that was an orphanage before its conversion. The collection is strongest in the Iberian section: sculpture, inscriptions and objects from the Iberian civilisation that preceded the Romans in eastern Spain, a culture not displayed with this focus in many museums. The Roman section holds material from sites across the province. The display is modern and clearly organised, with interpretation in several languages, which makes it easy to follow for non-Spanish speakers, unlike some other provincial museums. The Valencian Museum of Ethnology occupies the same building, a separate institution with a different collection. The two can be taken in on one stop if you have the time.
Sculpture and inscriptions from eastern Spain's pre-Roman culture, the museum's strong point.
Easier to follow for non-Spanish speakers than other provincial museums.
The Ethnology Museum is in the same building on a separate ticket — both in one stop.
Centre Cultural La Beneficència, Carrer Corona, Valencia