National Archaeological Museum is located in the Palace of libraries and museums in the city of Madrid, where he is also the National Library, and earlier, before the merger with the Museum of the Prado in 1971, also houses the Museum of Modern Art. The museum is located on the street next to Serrano Square Columbus.
The museum was founded in 1867 by decree of Isabella II in connection with the need to create a museum that would have kept the ethnographic and archaeological finds, objects of decorative art and numismatic collection .
In this museum , one of the best in Madrid, there are many monuments of antiquity.In the garden, created a magnificent and authentic copy of the caves of Altamira , one of the most important samples of rock paintings of the Paleolithic period in Europe. The most important exhibit in them are three sculptures : The Lady of Elche , IV century. BC. Oe. , And Dame - monstrance with the Holy Hill (the province of Albacete) - masterpieces of Iberian culture.As well as some gold treasures of worship and Iberian crowns of the Visigoths in Gvarrasara VIII .
Also among the treasures of the museum should be noted Egyptian sarcophagi and mummies , objects of decorative art of the Roman period in the history of Spain , the Arab archaeological finds and objects of the Renaissance.
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