Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Moncada

Municipal archaeology museum in Moncada, with two rooms on Iberian culture at Tòs Pelat and on the Roman, Andalusi and late medieval worlds.

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About the museum

The Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Moncada has a recent history. It opened in spring 1999 as a Museographic Collection, under the Valencian Cultural Heritage Law passed in 1998, and in February 2011 it was officially recognised as a museum.

It is located at Calle Mayor, 35, in the building that housed the town hall from the early 20th century until 1997, when the council moved to the former palace of the counts of Rótova. The museum occupies several rooms on the first floor, and the ground floor houses the municipal library.

It has two permanent exhibition rooms. The first is devoted to Iberian culture and above all to the settlement of Tòs Pelat, with abundant Greek imports. The second covers the Roman, Andalusi and late medieval Christian worlds. The museum also promotes the excavations at Tòs Pelat, carried out since 2002 together with the Universitat de València, and has a laboratory.

Highlights

Iberian room with material from the Tòs Pelat settlement and imported Attic pottery
Iberian rotary quern with its turning mechanism reconstructed
Roman coin collection, with coins from the 1st century BC to Honorius
Almohad-period Islamic pottery from the Moncada alquería (farmstead)
Free guided visits to the rooms and to sites in the municipality

Permanent exhibitions

Sala 1: la cultura ibérica y el Tòs Pelat – Room of about 58 m² with material from the Iberian settlement of Tòs Pelat, including Attic pottery and a rotary quern with its mechanism reconstructed.
Sala 2: mundo romano, andalusí y bajomedieval – Room of about 47 m² with Roman coins and pottery, Almohad-period Islamic pottery and objects from the early Christians after the conquest of 1235.

Founded: 1999
Operated by: Ayuntamiento de Moncada