The Geominero Museum (Museo geominero) in Madrid is a place that, at first glance, from the street, may go unnoticed (or you may not even realise it exists) but once inside it hides an unexpected treasure, both for its contents and for the architecture of the building.
Inside the Geominero Museum (Museo geominero)
The Geominero Museum is located next to the Rios Rosas metro station. It is located in the building of the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain - Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (Calle de Rios Rosas, 28), and admission to the museum is free.
The museum's large main hall has a huge glass ceiling, a ground floor full of display cases and three upper floors with perimeter balconies overlooking the ground floor, which are reached by old stairs and are full of shelves and display cases with exhibitions.
The museum experience is surprising not only for its content (a large exhibition of minerals, fossils, rocks, etc. from Spain and the rest of the world), but also for the ambience of total calm and tranquillity, and for the atmosphere of the building, which evokes a journey into the past. It is not for nothing that the IGME celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2024, and the building was constructed between 1921 and 1940. The collections on display are more than a century old.
The duration of the visit can range from 1 hour to 3 or 4 hours, depending on the person and their interest in geology and mining. Moreover, the museum is quite close to the Natural Science Museum, another well-known and very extensive museum in Madrid, so you can walk from one to the other and in one day you can visit both.
More information about the museum (opening hours, history, etc.) can be found at https://www.igme.es/museo
Other nearby museums in Madrid
- Sorolla Museum.
- Madrid museum triangle: Prado Museum, Reina Sofía Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
- Museo de América, in Ciudad Universitaria (near Moncloa metro station).
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