Museo de Historia Local de San Javier

About the museum

The museum occupies the former Guardia Civil barracks of San Javier, an isolated mid-20th-century building that keeps its L-shaped plan, its sentry boxes and a central courtyard. Its origins as a museum date back to 1996.

The ethnological room tells the history of the municipality between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries in three sections: the land, with agriculture; the sea, with fishing; and the air, with the General Air Academy.

Another room is devoted to the Belén de España, a tribute to the large open-air nativity scene that has been set up every Christmas in Plaza de España in San Javier since 1969. The museum also has a room for temporary exhibitions. In the same building there is a nativity museum with around 500 figures.

Highlights

• Ethnological room: land, sea and air
• Belén de España room
• Former Guardia Civil barracks with central courtyard
• Virtual reality experience
• Free admission

Permanent exhibitions

• Sala etnológica – History of the municipality between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries in three sections: the land (agriculture), the sea (fishing) and the air (General Air Academy).
• Sala del Belén de España – Tribute to the open-air nativity scene installed every Christmas in Plaza de España in San Javier since 1969.

Founded

1996

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Free admission.

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