Mining Museum (Minas de Riotinto)

A 5,000-year journey through the history of mining and metallurgy.

This is in the Riotinto Mining Estate, which allows visitors to visit the mine or a miner's railway adapted to visitors. The museum is located in the former hospital of the Riotinto Company, the company that exploited these mines from 1873 to 1954. With English architecture, it is the first museum in Spain dedicated to the history of mining and metallurgy.The site offers a journey through the region via different eras of mining. It displays numerous artefacts from the long history of this activity, as well as emblematic industrial archaeological objects such as the “Maharaja carriage”, the most luxurious narrow-gauge railway carriage in the world. It was built specifically for one journey: to take Queen Victoria to India, which in the end never came to pass.