Museo de America

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Main entrance to the museum

The Museo de América is a museum in Madrid that has archaeological, ethnographic, and artistic exhibits from North and South America . The collection contains around 25,000 items from the Paleolithic to the present and contains the most important collection of pre-Columbian art outside of America (next to the Ethnological Museum Berlin-Dahlem).

The museum was founded on April 19, 1941 from the holdings of the National Archaeological Museum of Spain and has been located on Avenida de los Reyes Católicos 6 in Ciudad Universitaria since 1961. In 2014 64,000 visitors were counted.

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Coordinates: 40 ° 26 '17.3 "  N , 3 ° 43' 19.4"  W.