Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

The Museum of Natural Sciences of Valencia is the perfect place for a photographic exhibition “First Ladies, Women in emergency situations” (“First Ladies. Mujeres en situación de emergencia”)
The women are the first to suffer when the power of the army ruins a society. At the same time, they are powerful: they assure the survival of their family and assume the main sustenance tasks and refuge. For that reason, these women are our “First Ladies”.
Histories of these “First Ladies” have been picked up by three famous Dutch photographers in three contexts, women who have been affected by the war or the insecurity of it:

The Iglesia Santa Maria del Mar is one of the best preserved Rennaisance churches in Valencia. Its origin dates from the early days of the conquest by King Jaime I of Aragon.
It is named in historical documents dating as far back as 1333 and 1392. In the descriptions of this ancient building, there is a visual record from 1563 in which the Flemish painter Van den Anthoine Wijngaerde Grao shows the appearance of Valencia and from the view you can see the church.
There is limited information on this stunning church but it has been recorded that originally it was a single-nave temple 25 [...]

The Museo Histórico Médico, is located inside the highly complex of the School of Medicine of the University of Valencia.
The museum was created after many instruments, materials and iconographic works were donated by the school. Over the years the museum has grown due to donations from others. With artefacts dating back as early as the 19th century, the museum illustrates how medical science has advanced over the years.
There are different sections dedicated to a variety of subjects related to medicine including Paleo-medicine and traditional medicines from different countries such as Greece, China, and India. A separate hall in the Museo Historico-Medico is dedicated [...]

La Casa-Museo Concha is the house where Concha Piquer was born.
On the ninety-fifth anniversary of her birth (Valencia, 1906-Madrid, 1990), Valencia City Council paid tribute to the memory of the famous artist from Valencia and created La Casa-Museo Concha Piquer dedicated to her and her life.
The house rises on a rectangular surface with windows and recayentes balconies to the street of Ruaya and to the street of the Nugget. The ground floor is  a diaphanous room with a permanent exhibition of abundant graphical documentation, personal items, material objects, records, close memories detailing her life. Audiovisual displays  have also been especially [...]

The Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueología can be found in the La Beneficencia Cultural Center, which incorporates various museums and a gallery for temporary exhibitions on a wide variety of subjects.
This cultural centre is also quite close to the IVAM museum. This museum is where you will find the valuable pieces found on archaeological excavations undertaken by the Service of Prehistoric Investigation.
It constitutes perhaps one of the finest museographic collections in Spain. Its exhibition halls trace the evolution of Valencians and their instruments from the Palaeolithic to the late Roman era. The cultural center has a shop with a good variety of books [...]

The Valencian traditional society has passed us down a whole wealth of culture enabling us to find out how people really lived in this part of the world.
This includes photographs, eyewitness accounts and items which constituted our way of living and understanding the world, documenting techniques, practices and ideological representations, everyday objects which speak to us about those who created and used them.
Recovering these materials is one of the raisons d’être of the Museu Valencià d’Etnologia, set up by the Diputació de València (provincial authority) in 1982 exists. The Museum has a permanent exhibition, although still being developed, split into five areas defining [...]

The Museo de Ciencias Naturales of Valencia is a hidden jewel in another corner of Turia city, the Royal Gardens, better known as Viveros.
It’s not a very well known museum and therefore rarely crowded. So much so it doesn’t even have its own website!
It is a home to an enormous collection of ancient fossils and large dinosaur skeletons so the Museum of Natural Sciences appeals to all ages. With large and spacious exhibition halls, other museum attractions include informative displays about evolution, together with prehistoric information about the Valencia area.
Museum of Natural Science
Hours: Tuesday to [...]

Monasterio de San Miguel de los Reyes
The Hieronymite monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes (San Miguel of the Kings) rose in 16th century on the site of the old mercedaria abbey of Sant Bernat de Rascanya, thanks to the patronage of Duke de Calabria, Virrey of Valencia.
The building started in 1546 in the South cloister, following the plans of Juan de Vidaña and Alonso de Covarrubias. Shortly after the death of their founder, in 1550, the works practically became paralyzed. They were not started again until 1570, and were fully under the influence of the “Evangelistas de El Escorial”.
It was [...]

Prince Felipe Museum of Science is part of Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències.
The building was designed by Santiago Calatrava and was built in a joint venture of Fomento de Construcciones and Contratas and Necso. It was opened on 13th November 2000.
The building was designed in 1991 and construction began in 1996. It is over 41,000 square meters in area and resembles the prehistoric-skeleton of a whale. The building is three stories high and is surrounded by clear blue swimming pools. The side of the swimming pool provides a long slow walk. Each one of the three floors provides an area of [...]

The Hemisfèric is part of Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències.
The Hemisfèric was the first building in the City of Arts and Sciences to open its doors to the public in 1998.
This spectacular construction was designed by the Valencian architect Santiago Calatrava, with an ovoid roof spanning over 100 metres that contains the large sphere that constitutes the projection room of the IMAX cinema.

L’Hemisféric
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