National Museum and Research Center of Altamira
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The National Museum and Research Center of Altamira (Spanish: Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira), also known as Altamira Museum (Spanish: Museo de Altamira), is a center dedicated to the conservation of, research into, and the sharing of information about the cave of Altamira in Santillana del Mar (Cantabria), Spain, named a World Heritage Site by Unesco. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Culture.
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira | |
Established | July 17, 2001 (2001-07-17) |
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Location | Santillana del Mar (Cantabria), Spain |
Coordinates | 43.3774°N 4.1225°W / 43.3774; -4.1225 |
Key holdings | Neocave [es], a reproduction of the Cave of Altamira |
Collections | See collections |
Visitors | 287 929 (2017) [1] |
Architect | Juan Navarro Baldeweg |
Website | museodealtamira |
The museum offers prehistoric technology workshops to visitors, as well as a permanent exhibition called Times of Altamira, which contains objects from Altamira as well as those from other palaeolithic caves of Cantabria such as El Morín [es], El Juyo and El Rascaño [es]. The New Altamira Cave, or Neocave [es], is also part of this exhibition: an artificial replica of the original caves, built in order to preserve the originals from damage arising from a massive influx of visitors.