The National Archaeological Museum of Spain (Spanish: Museo Arqueológico Nacional) is a museum in Madrid, Spain. It is located on Serrano Street beside the Plaza de Colón (Columbus Square), sharing its building with the National Library.
The museum was founded in 1867 by a Royal Decree of Isabella II, and its purpose was to be a depository for numismatic, archaeological, ethnographical and decorative art collections compiled by the Spanish monarchs.
The first home of the museum was a building in the Embajadores district of Madrid. In 1895 all the collections were moved to the current venue, a neoclassical building projected by architect Francisco Jareño and built from 1866 to 1892. In 1968 renovation and extension works considerably increased its area.
In 2008, the museum closed for renovation and reopenedin April 2014, though it was originally to reopen in 2013, The remodelled museum concentrates on its core role, rather than its decorative arts collection.
The collection includes, among others, Prehistoric, Egyptian, Celtic, Iberian, Greek and Roman antiquities and medieval (Visigothic, Islamic Spanish and Christian) objects.
The Museo Arqueológico Nacional is a public institution managed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and is settled in a XIX century building, former Palace of Museums and Libraries. Nowadays this building is shared with the Spanish National Library. The Museum was founded in 1867 by Royal Decree of Queen Elizabeth II of Spain. The mission of this museum is to promote the knowledge about the Spanish History through Archaeology and, also, exhibit the testimonies of the archaeological collecting tradition in Spain from the XIX century to the present times.
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