Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

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 Histórico Militar was opened on the 12th of May, 1995 by the Military district commander of the East D. Agustín Quesada Go’mez.
The museum was created “for a better and wider knowledge of the Army, at the request of Lt. Gen. Don Agustin Quesada Gomez, Head of Regional Command” Levante “, as indicated in the commemorative plaque placed at the entrance.
Located in the area of San Juan de la Ribera (North) on the Paseo de la Alameda, it was built in 1898 for an Infantry Regiment. It has been occupied successively as a result of the various reorganizations of the Army, infantry [...]

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 [...]

The Museum of Beautiful Arts of Valencia, also known as the Painting Museum of the Carmen, Provincial Museum of Beautiful Arts, or more recently the Museum San Pío V from the building that hosts it, is one of the most important in the Valencian Community as far as historical paintings go.
It is formed by a great pinacoteca and an ample floor of drawings and engravings, besides sculptures, archaeological pieces, architectonic fragments, decorative photographs and arts. Its history is long and risky, with of ups and downs of all types, in which stages and moments of crisis are laid out, but it always leads [...]

The church of San Juan del Hospital is one of the most interesting monuments in the city.
The historical place of San Juan Hospital has in its interior the oldest church of Valencia. It was founded in the 13th century (1238) by the Sovereign Military order and San Juan de Jerusalem.
Jaime I then made a donation in gratitude of lands located next to the door of the Xerea. Perhaps the passer by may ask is that a hospital?, since has never seen doctors or patients. It was based on the days of the crossed ones and for the care an order was created. One [...]

The Bullring is located in the city centre, next to the Northern Station. It is a neoclassic building design by Sebastián Monleón, built between 1850-1860, of 18 metres high and the ring has a diameter of 52 metres. The main bullfights take place during Fallas (March) and at the July Fair. Bullfighting Museum.
Founded in 1929, it is one of the oldest and most important in Spain, and has historical objects from the XVIII, XIX, and XX centuries.
It is conceived as a space for promotion and investigation of the art of bullfighting. The Museum has a permanent exhibition that shows the development of Valencian [...]

Museo Nacional de Ceramica Gonzalez Marti.
The National Ceramics Museum is housed in a 15th century Rococco palace and was refurbished in 1740 on rococo style with a magnificent alabaster entrance.
You can enjoy the luxurious splendour of the rooms, some of which are kept in the original Gothic style of XV century, and others bring you back into the age of salons, orientalism and ballroom dancing. There is even a carriage entrance complete with a few carriages.
All rooms, in addition to luxurious interior, hold fine examples of ceramics. There is even a fully equipped typical Valencian kitchen made 100% of ceramics from top [...]

Try to catch an excellent exhibit called Modern India at the IVAM. Visitors were taken a tour of India’s history, from colonialism to the present day, through the eyes of its artists.
A large, comprehensive exhibit, filled with oil paintings, sculptures, photography, and audio-visual displays, Modern India provided an excellent couple hours of escapism.
If you didn’t get to see it, hopefully the pictures in this post provide an acceptable substitute. The exhibit was split into 6 periods, organized by time. The first two detail the colonial period, when the British ruled, then slowly lost their grip on the subcontinent. Things got psychedelic, as [...]

Welcome to the 75th Ninot Exhibition.

Ninots are tiny figures (compared to the big huge Fallas) which are placed within a Fallas exhibit. They provide some humor, often reflecting on the happenings of the past year.
It’s similar to the Carnival  from Germany and other places from around the world. The exhibit is a nice way to take a closer look at the often beautiful and artistic figures before they’re placed on the streets during La Planta and finally burned on La Crema.
One thing is certain – all the Ninots are burnt, except for the one saved by a public vote. [...]