Museums in the Altiplano de Granada



Baza


Interpretation Centre of Archeological Remains

Gives a view of the Roman Iberian city Basti how it was about 2600 years ago (3D animations). This is also the place where you can see a painted replica of the famous Dama de Baza; a statue that they have encountered during the excavations.

 

Location: Cerro Cepero (salida 342 A92) 18800 Baza, tel:858891317

Opening Hours:

Tuesday - Sunday: 11:00 - 14:00

and Thursday - Saturday: 17:00 - 18:30



Archaelogical Museum Baza

It exposes the remains of Basti of what was one of the main settlements of man in the peninsula. The most important sculpture they found is the Dama de Baza, an Iberian sculpture from the fourth century. 

 

Location: Plaza Mayor, 18800 Baza, Tel: 958 861 947

Opening Hours:

Tuesday - Sunday and Fesitval days: 11:00 - 14:00

and Thursday - Saturday: 18:00 - 19:30

Vistor Center Natural Park Sierra de Baza: Narvaez

This center shows the ecological and cultural history of the people who lived in this natural park an in its surroundings.

 

Location: Highway A92 exit 324, 18800 Baza,

Tel: 958 002 018

Openings Hours:

• October to December (Wednesday to Sunday): 10am to 2pm and 4pm to 6pm. 

• January to March (Friday to Sunday): 10am to 2pm and 4pm to 6pm. 

• April to 12th June (Wednesday to Sunday): 10am to 2pm and 6pm to 8pm. 

• 13th June to 30th September: 10am to 2pm and 6pm to 8pm.


Galera


Archeological Museum Galera

It was inaugurated in July of 2001 in the old convent of nuns of Cristo Rey. The Museum of Galera conserves and exposes objects that belong to all the periods of the historical development in this region. The oldest sites are around 4500 years old and the most modern belong to the medieval period. The materials exposed in it belonged to particular collections of people of the town that had been finding them. It houses vestiges of the Copper Age, the Argar culture, the Bronze Age and the successive Iberian, Roman, Visigoth and Muslim settlements. The collection is showing also mummies found at Castellón Alto.

Price: Normal ticket: 2 euros / Concessions (under 10 and groups of more than 20 people): 1 euro.

 

Summer time (June 1 to September 30) 

Mornings 11 to 13h 

Evenings 19 to 21h, closed on Mondays  

Winter time (October 1 to May 31) 

Mornings 11 to 13h 

Evenings 17 to 19h, closed on Mondays 



Castellón Alto

The town of Castellón Alto was part of the culture of the Argar (Bronze period 1900-1600 BC). It was small in size, at the time of maximum occupancy, it was occupied by eighty to hundred people. Now a day it is partially reconstructed and shows the way of living  in the village Argárico 3,500 years ago.

 

Opening hours: Summer time (May 1 to September 30) 

Mornings 10am to 12pm / Evenings 19 to 21h 

Winter time (October 1 to April 30) 

Mornings 11 to 13h / Evenings 16 to 18h 

 

 Prices: General admission (guided tour): 2 euros 

Concessions (under 10 and groups of over 20 people) (Guided Tour): 1 euro



Necrópolis de Tútugi

Located near the town of Galera These remains  that dated back to s. V BC is nationally one of the largest and most significant examples of the Iberian Culture. 

 

Prices

General admission (guided tour): 2 euros 

Concessions (under 10 and groups of more than 20 people): 1 euro

Opening hours:

Summer time (October 1 to April 30) 

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 

Mornings: 1 guided tour at 11am 

Afternoons: 1 tour at 16h 

Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 

Mornings: 1st tour at 11am, 2nd tour at 12pm. 

Afternoons: 1st tour at 16h, 2nd tour at 17h. 

 



Winter time (May 1 to September 30) 

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 

Mornings: 1 guided tour at 10am 

Afternoons: 1 tour at 20h 

Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 

Mornings: 1st tour at 10am, 2nd tour at 11am. 

 Afternoons: 1st tour at 19pm, 2nd tour at 20h. 


Orce


Prehistoric and Geologic Museum

It houses a complete collection of pieces that come from the diverse sites of the town. The museum extends throughout 3 great thematic rooms. In the first room (of fauna), four display cabinets with skulls and post-skulls rests of the main animal species found in these deposits are exposed, standing out the rests of two different types of sabre teeth tigers, a completely extinguished species of feline and whose importance resides in which its presence is always related to the one of the man. The second room of the museum is occupied by complete fractions of the sites, whole limestone sections that contain fossils. One of them corresponds to an accumulation of skulls, all broken on their occipital part, hypothetically reunited by hominids to extract and to eat the brain. The third and last room of the museum is consecrated to the lithic industry in Fuente Nueva, and specifically to stones of sílex that guarantee that this place was a settlement. Some rests of bones broken by human beings can be seen as well, which present the typical mark of enlarged fracture and in the shape of a “V”.

 

Location: Palacio de Segura, C/ Tiendas s/n, 18858 Orce, Tel: 958 746 171

Puebla de Don Fadrique


Casa-Museo Gregorio Marin 

The rooms are divided over three floors, on the ground floor we have the living of García Lorca, while the two top floors are showing interesting varied art (paintings, collages, sculptures, ceramics, etc ...).

Castril


Vistor Center Natural Park Sierra de Castril

This center shows the ecological and cultural history of the people who lived in this natural park and in its surroundings.

 

Opening days:

01/03 - 30/04 and 01/09 - 31/12: Thursday morning,  Friday afternoon, Saturdays, Sundays, festival days 
01/05 al 30/06: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and festival days 
01/07 al 31/08: Wednes morning, Thursday, Fridays, Saturdays and festival days
01/01 al 28/02: Friday afternoon, Saturdays, Sundays and festival days 

 

Hours:

01/10 - 31/03:  morning 10:00  a- 14:00 / afternoon: 16:00 - 18:00
01/04 - 30/09: morning: 10:00  - 14:00 / afternoon: 18:00 - 20:00 

 

Benamaurel


Casa del Tío Tínajas

Private museum located in a cave with a beautifull wine cellar and a Arabic prison. The earthenware jars date from the Visigoth and Moorish periods.

Location: Benamaurel near the former fort