Museo Arqueológico Municipal, Seville, Spain

Only twenty minutes from the Andalusian captial, in the Sevillian town of Marchena you can find the Municipal Archeological Museum, inaugurated in 1987 with pieces from local archeological findings, both of City property and from private collections. The museum, which has a clear diadactic vocation, is chronologically arranged from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, including the Iberia and Roman eras. It consists of one lone exhibition room, halved by a central scale model that represents the Iron Age. The various display cases contain elements from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages (axes, trowels, daggers, bronze axes, and ceramics) and the Iberian world (ceramics, fibulas...). Of special interest are the two Iberian stone statues: a feminine idol and a head. Likewise, you will see displayed the furnishings of an Iberian tomb, consisting of horse harnesses, spear tips, ferrules, and a scythe, also made of iron. One part of the exibit room is dedicated to the representation of the Roman era, from the reconstruction of a loom to a multitude of small objects in cases: glass pieces, chandeliers, lead work, seals, small mud figures, coins, and even a cremation urn with its tomb furnishings.