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The museum was created in 1941 as the Ultramar Library Museum or the Archaeological Museum of the Indies. Inaugurated in 1965 and reopened on October 12, 1993. The building was built in a historicist and neocolonial style according to the project of Luis Moya and Luis Martínez Feduchi, with the idea of ​​missionary work of Spain in America, which is why the tower simulates an American baroque church and the distribution It takes place around a garden cloister.

The collection comes from old collections of the Natural History Cabinet, created by Carlos III, and from the first archaeological excavations that were carried out on the continent; donations, deposits and acquisitions of new works. The museum has pieces from Spanish America and from peoples settled in Brazil, the United States or Canada. The museum houses more than 25,000 pieces, of which there are about 2,500 on display, from prehistory to the present, highlighting pre-Columbian archeology, ethnography and colonial art

The permanent exhibition rooms are distributed around the cloister.

There is a room for temporary exhibitions, a rest area, auditorium, seminar, library, cafeteria. store and Didactic Classroom.

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Closed Monday. January 1 and 6, May 1, December 24, 25 and 31 and a local holiday

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Inaugurated in 1965 in its new headquarters in the University City. It was created in 1941 to bring together the collections of American archeology and ethnology from prehistory to the present, highlighting pre-Columbian archeology, ethnography and colonial art

The collections come from the Royal Cabinet of Natural History created in 1771 by Charles III. It has more than 25,000 pieces, of which about 2,500 are on display

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