Best places: Archaeological museums in Cartagena, Spain

Restored ancient Roman amphitheater with a museum featuring artifacts found by archeologists.

Permanent & temporary exhibitions about field, urban & underwater archaeology, with local finds.

Tours of a sheltered archaeological site housing the excavated remains of a Roman forum.

A permanent collection & temporary exhibits, plus a gift shop, a library & access to a castle.

👍👍 Free to get in and very friendly staff. A bit of a walk out of town. The woman guide is extremely helpful and knowledgeable and speaks very good Englsh. Bit of a walk out of town but worth it.

Venue with permanent & temporary displays of local finds from prehistory to the Bronze Age.

👍👍 Just great, free entrance

👍👍 Museo Siyasa is a great museum. The reconstruction of the house from Medina Siyasa is fantastic and well worth going to the museum just for that. Very interesting. The displays are modern and well laid out. It's also free!

👍👍 An amazing archeological site. It is a MUST if you visit Elche. The receptionist who greeted us to the site was a historian himself and had been excavating in other important sites. He told us a lot of interesting information and made our visit worth the heat. It is a pity that he is working there o...

Museum dedicated to archaeological items found underwater, including shipwrecks, treasure & fossils.

Modern, multimedia visitor center containing ruins of circa-300-BCE Carthaginian defensive walls.

👍👍 Hoy hemos realizado la visita guiada al museo de Petrer con Jose. Nos ha transmitido la pasión y conocimiento de la Villa de Petrer a través de las piezas y restos arqueológicos conservados en el Museo. El gran conocimiento de Jose por la historia de Petrer, nos ha transportado a la época en la que...

👍 It was opened in 1990, it is located on the ground floor of the Casa de la Cultura. It has a wide collection of the culture of the Bajo Segura divided into different areas, Roman Culture, Iberian Culture, Islamic Culture, etc. Admission costs € 1, and a visit to the Ingeniero Mira House Museum is a...

Subterranean museum displaying Roman temple ruins, including decorative columns, vases & mosaics.

😐 Old Arab Baths of Elche, where in later centuries the Catholic Church kept it and built a Church on top of it and it was also later given other uses as a cemetery, etc. It is located inside the old convent of the Poor Clares.

👍👍 Un lugar imprescindible. Muy bien conservado y que sigue dando sorpesas

👍 We are in the strait of the caves, with several caves in its surroundings and with 2 special caves, the BLACK CAVE, where Professor Michael Walker is carrying out very interesting anthropological studies on the existence of Neanderthals in the cave, and the MOOR KING CAVE with its attached construct...

👍 The receptionist who attended us was very friendly, the interpretation is very extensive and detailed. The model is very well done. Admission is free. We really liked visiting the center

👍👍 Un bellisimo edificio para contener un bello museo de arqueología, de la zona de Caravaca de la Cruz. Bellas y bien conservadas piezas de diferentes periodos históricos, en un pequeño recorrido bien planteado. De lo mejor, el personal que atiende la recepción del museo, muy profesional, amable y ser...

😐 Gracias al Ayuntamiento de Cartagena por haber dado la oportunidad de hacer una visita en primicia a Cueva Victoria. Ojalá surgiera un proyecto con subvenciones para que la excavación no solo se diera en los meses de verano (y con personal voluntario, que no cobra…). La cueva es pequeña en comparaci...