Regional Archaeological Museum of the Community of Madrid

Regional Archaeological Museum

Museo Arqueológico y Paleontológico de la Comunidad de Madrid
Established	25 May 1999
Location	Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Coordinates	40°28′58″N 3°22′08″W
Type	Archaeological

The Regional Archaeological Museum (Spanish: Museo Arqueológico y Paleontológico de la Comunidad de Madrid; MARPA) is an archaeological museum in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, dependent on the regional administration of the Community of Madrid.

History

Following the creation of the Community of Madrid in 1983 and the transfer to the former of the powers in cultural policies in 1985, a project to create a new regional museum was lined up, as the province of Madrid (already enjoying the National Archaeological Museum) had lacked until that point a provincial museum.^[1] The old convent of La Madre de Dios in Alcalá de Henares was chosen as location of the future museum in 1985 and, following works started in 1987, the museum was eventually opened on 25 May 1999.^[2]

Collection

The museum exhibits some paleontological findings such as a skull of cave bear found in Patones in 1971, the biggest ever found in the Iberian Peninsula.^[3]

The part of the museum devoted to the Roman period includes a number of epigraphic pieces and an important collection of Roman mosaics from Complutum, the Roman-era Alcalá de Henares.^[4]

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  Skull of a Machairodus saber-toothed cat from the Cerro de los Batallones in Torrejón de Velasco
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  Carpetan Patera of Titulcia [es]
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  Roman mosaic of Bacchus from Complutum
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  11th-century pot from the Cava Baja in Madrid

References

Citations

1. Baquedano Pérez 2005, pp. 75–76.
2. Baquedano Pérez 2005, p. 76; Navarro Rodríguez 2018, p. 144
3. "Alcalá exhibe el mayor cráneo de oso cavernario de la Península". El País. 4 February 2009.
4. "Ciudad Romana de Complutum y Casa de Hippolytus" (PDF). p. 24.

Bibliography

• Baquedano Pérez, Enrique (2005). "El M.A.R. y las nuevas tecnologías" (PDF). Marq, Arqueología y Museos. Alicante: Museo Arqueológico de Alicante: 75–83. ISSN 1885-3145.
• Navarro Rodríguez, Elena (2018). "Análisis de los discursos y las imágenes en los museos arqueológicos desde una perspectiva feminista: estudio de tres casos" (PDF). Arqueología y Territorio (15): 139–151. ISSN 1698-5664.