Phone: 967 228 307

Fax: 967 229 515

Email: museo-albacete@jccm.es

Website: www.info-ab.uclm.es/al...

Location

At one end of the Abelardo Sánchez Park.

Timetables

Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 2pm and 4.30pm to 7pm. Sundays and public holidays, mornings only.
Closed: Mondays, January 1st, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and December 25th.

Fees

Admission: €1.20
Concessions: €0.59
Free: retired, over 65 and under 18 years of age.

How to get there

Road transport

The museum’s Archaeological Collection is laid out in a number of galleries along the first and second floors. In the first gallery we find artefacts from the Palaeolithic period, such as the remains found in the excavations of the Valdeganga, Fuensanta, Molino del Vadico and Fuente de Isso findings.

The second gallery houses a collection of Post-Palaeolithic Cave Art from the shelters of the Cueva de la Vieja in Alpera, Minateda, Solana de las Covachas and El Ídolo; and the gallery dedicated to the Neolithic above all houses the pottery remains from the Cueva de la Santa, the Cueva del Niño, the Molino del Vadico and El Amarejo.

From the Bronze Age there is a museum of funeral remains, pottery and metallic utensils from the findings at La Peñuela, the Morra de Quintanar, El Acequión and the Cerro del Cuchillo.

In the Albacete Provincial Museum’s fifth, sixth and seventh galleries, there is an enormous quantity of archaeological remains from the Iberian culture, mostly collected in the stable settlements and Iberian necropoles that are scattered across the landscape around Albacete.

Among these findings are some of the most important in Spain, such as the Cerro de los Santos, the Tolmo de Minateda, Los Villares or the areas around Hoya de Santa Ana and the Llano de la Consolación.
Among the remains found, the most interesting include the Knight of Los Villares, and León of Bienservida, the Esfinge de Haches, the Consolación ceramics or the Stag of Caudete, as well as many pottery remains and metallic objects.

Few Roman settlements have been found in Albacete, perhaps because the province was more of an area of transit. There were, however, two important findings, the remains from which are housed in the Museum’s eighth and ninth galleries: The Guard House of Tarazona de La Mancha, where significant 4th century A.D. mosaic remains were found, and the Balazote thermal baths, with many rooms housing well preserved mosaics, such as The Sandals, Medusa or The Ocean.

Many examples of roman epigraphs are also preserved on columns and headstones, as well as some display cabinets with objects from daily life in the era, including statuettes, pottery, lanterns, bone needles, pots for cosmetics, etc. There is a particularly interesting collection of extremely valuable articulated dolls made of ivory and amber, found inside a funeral chest atLas Eras.

The Fine Arts Section: A little before the museum was opened, the painter Benjamín Palencia, born in Barrax, donated around 120 works to the museum collection. These were used to create one of the sections of the museum, dedicated to Fine Arts and Contemporary Art. The collection on public display in the Museum of Albacete is an anthological selection from Benjamín Palencia’s long years of artistic endeavour and includes works on canvas and paper with a variety of themes and techniques. The most outstanding of these are Two Bullfighters, The binder, Nude Girl, Fields of Castile, Landscapes, Red Earth, etc.
The visitor is surprised by their excellent colours, magnificent drawing and impeccable style, particularly because, despite his long artistic trajectory as one of the founders of the Vallecas School, Benjamín Palencia was basically self-taught.

Museum content

Prehistory, Archaeology, Painting (17th – 20th centuries).

Services

Guided tour, Shop, Library.