Valencian Museum of Ethnology — Attraction in Valencia

Fascinating, and wonderfully bonkers place. We're led to understand that Valencia's Ethnology Museum is a fairly concise journey through the mindset of the average local over the ages. Presented in an ultra-modern series of settings that play out like a Willy Wonka fever dream, this certainly makes the mind boggle.

I'm all for a learning space that engenders introspection, and upends the dynamic of the museum visitor as being merely a voyeur of carefully curated specimens. Far from it, this place makes you question the very meaning of human existence and creativity at every turn. So I say Hurrah, as isn't that what Ethnology's really all about?

The museum seems to be either completely free to enter (it was for me, on a Friday in July) or a token €2, which is easily worth it. The museum shares a building, and various entry points, with its neighbour, the Prehistory museum (same ticket).

You'll know at any point in the visit which of the two spaces you're occupying, as its neighbour is far more stoic, but equally worth a...

This Museum is a gem. They were very few people there. School children on field trips. The place is larger than I had expected. There is the museum of prehistory, primarily regarding evidence of prehistoric peoples in the Iberian peninsula. Very nice exhibits. Leading up through the Celts and other early migrants, then the influence of the Phoenicians and Greeks. Eventually showing history left by the Romans, and later by the Visigoths. Other exhibits include modern activities. Some parts of this are filled with mirrors and other features that give a somewhat disorienting feeling while walking through it. It is very well done. As far as I can tell, the museum is three floors in a rectangle around a very nice...

It took us 3 visits (free entry) to see everything. The Prehistory and Ethnology museums are both housed in this huge building, which has 6 courtyards and a nice leafy cafe. There are impressive displays of Prehistoric, Iberian, Roman and Visigoth items from the region. Labels are in Valenciano and Spanish but there are English explanation sheets in each room. The Ethnology part shows the settlement and character of Valencia in a series of creative displays which have clearly had a lot of money spent on them. There was just a handful of other visitors at the...