Museo Arqueologico in Seville

Museo Arqueologico in Seville is spread across the former Pavilion of Fine Arts which was constructed under the designs of Aníbal González in Neo-Renaissance style for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. This museum functions from this pavilion since 1941. Various private collections since the mid-19th Century have been gathered and collaborated into the treasures of Museo Arqueologico. Museo Arqueologico in Seville was given by the Seville Town Hall to the State for permanent functioning.

Fast Facts of Museo Arqueologico in Seville

  -  Location: Plaza de América, Seville
  -  Tel. +34 954232401, +34 954235389
  -  Fax +34 954629542
  -  Open: Tuesday 15:00 hrs-20:00 hrs, Wednesday -Saturday 9:00 hrs-20:00 hrs, Sunday: 9:00 hrs-14:00 hrs.
  -   No Admission charge for EU citizens.
  -  Closed: Mondays, 1 and 6 January, 1 May, 1 November and 24, 25 and 31 December.

Features of Museo Arqueologico in Seville

  -  Museo Arqueologico in Seville has three floors
While the bottom floor has prehistoric remains from the province displayed in chronological order from the Lower Paleolithic era to the Iberoturdetano Period.
  -  On the main floor of Museo Arqueologico, there are relics from the Roman era and sequential periods as well. Interestingly enough, though these antiquities were collected from all across the province, most of them relics were excavated from the old city of Italica, birthplace of the emperors Trajano and Adriano.
  -  The first floor is used for various museum services and for even researchers.
  -  Through a tour of Museo Arqueologico in Seville and a study of the materials from Prehistoric to Roman to Arabic culture, you will be able to explore the process of Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula.
  -  What would impress you in Museo Arqueologico in Seville, is the collection of Carambolo's Treasure dating from the Tartesian period of from the 5th century B.C.