The Provincial Museum of Ciudad Real is a paleontology and archaeology museum in Ciudad Real, Spain. It is jointly operated with a fine arts museum housed in the Convent of La Merced. The museum's building works took place from 1976 to 1978, and it was opened to the public on 15 March 1982.
After reform works between 1993 and 1995, the museum was reopened on 29 March 1995. New reform works started in 2007, and the Fine Arts section was relocated to the Convent of La Merced. The museum was reopened again on 27 September 2013.
The archaeological section exhibits an important set of Paleolithic items, chiefly coming from private collections. The Chalcolithic and Bronze Age feature bell beaker pottery and stone arrowheads. The items from the later period also include Bronze Age warrior stelae discovered in the province of Ciudad Real, such as one found in Chillón in 2018.
A reconstruction of an Anancus skeleton found in Las Higueruelas constitutes the landmark item of the museum.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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