This museum houses one of the most unique finds in the entire region: the partially mummified remains from Burial 121 at the Castellón Alto archaeological site, known as “the Galera Mummy,” which date back to the Argaric culture (Bronze Age) and discovered in 2002 in an exceptional state of preservation, unparalleled anywhere on the Iberian Peninsula.
The exhibition, spread across three rooms within the former chapel of the Convent of the Nuns of Christ the King, takes visitors on a journey through more than 4,000 years of history: from the Copper Age and the Argaric culture on the first floor, to the Iberian culture, the Roman and medieval periods on the ground floor (where a replica of the Goddess of Galera stands out—a Phoenician alabaster sculpture whose original is housed in the National Archaeological Museum)—and including an ethnographic room dedicated to traditional winemaking and the crafting of esparto grass and hemp.
