Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (MUNCYT Coruña)

About the museum

The Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología was created by royal decree in 1980 and was founded without its own collection; the first pieces reached its stores in 1982. Its first home was the former Delicias station in Madrid. In 2008 a museum plan was approved that envisaged a decentralised institution with several venues across the country, and management passed to the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).

The A Coruña venue opened in May 2012 under the direction of Ramón Núñez Centella, and two years later it received a special mention at the European Museum of the Year awards. The building houses around 3,000 m² of permanent exhibition across nine floors and seven different museum designs, which can be renewed independently. It is the only State museum of national status with supplementary texts in Spanish, Galician and English, and its route is guided by blue and orange lines on the floor.

In July 2013 the last room of the permanent exhibition opened, devoted to the 20th century, with one hundred objects, one for each year of the century. The museum's total collection is around 19,000 pieces, of which some 600 are displayed in A Coruña.

Highlights

• Mayúsculas Room with the first computer to arrive in Spain (an IBM 650 belonging to RENFE, 1959)
• Cabin and front section of the Boeing 747 “Lope de Vega”, which carried Picasso's Guernica
• Siglo XX Room: one hundred everyday objects, one for each year of the century
• 19th-century lantern from the Tower of Hercules
• First particle accelerator designed and built at the Junta de Energía Nuclear

Permanent exhibitions

• Mayúsculas – Large room with some of the bulkiest pieces in the collection, including the first computer to arrive in Spain, a particle accelerator and the projector from the Cine París.
• Siglo XX: Cachivaches – A journey through the last century via one hundred everyday objects of science and technology: household appliances, vehicles, toys and tools.
• Iberia – Space containing the cabin and front section of the Boeing 747 “Lope de Vega”, which can be walked through from the cargo hold to the flight deck.

Founded

1980

Operated by

Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Admission to the museum, to the permanent and temporary exhibitions and to guided visits is free. Tickets are collected at the museum's ticket office.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible: no information
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

Guided visits with a Spanish Sign Language interpreter (in collaboration with the Federación de Asociacións de Persoas Xordas de Galicia) for groups of deaf, deafblind or hard-of-hearing people: 45 minutes, on the third Saturday of each month (other dates depending on availability), with booking 15 days in advance at reservascor@muncyt.es (5 to 25 people).

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

Family guided visit with a team treasure hunt and an experimental activity; workshops for general and family audiences are part of the activity programme. For activities for under-14s, the adults in charge must remain in the museum.

Getting there & parking

The museum is on the Praza do Museo Nacional de Ciencia, in A Coruña.

Amenities & dining

Groups can book a picnic area.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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