Museo de America
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.
Web links
Commons : Museo de América (Madrid) - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website of the Museo de América (English, Spanish)
- Museo de America . In: Official website of the Madrid Tourist Office
Coordinates: 40 ° 26 '17.3 " N , 3 ° 43' 19.4" W.