Do you still not know a festival recognized by Unesco as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity? Then come and enjoy knowing the Fallas in the Fallas Museum; both its history and its evolution.
The exhibition has a permanent collection: large and children’s pardoned dolls, posters announcing Fallas, portraits of the Falleras Mayor of Valencia, rewards and badges of Fallas commissions. The dolls awarded each year are also incorporated into this Museum, one of the big fallas and another of the children’s ones. All this, with the photographs of the best Fallas and the posters announcing that have won the annual competition, make up its funds and the heritage of popular culture and this major festival that are the Valencia Fallas.
The College of High Silk Art is one of the most outstanding buildings of Valencian architecture and culture, located in a very special area of the historic center of the city of Valencia, the Velluters neighborhood.
In 1686 the old Velvet Guild became, by privilege of King Charles II, the College of High Silk Art, the most important corporation that unites small entrepreneurs in the sector.
The building dates from the fifteenth century, is Gothic based and contains an important heritage wealth inside in the form of frescoes, murals and mosaics, especially in the latter case, the floor of FAMA. With its rehabilitation, promoted by the Hortensia Herrera Foundation, a piece of the tangible and intangible history of the city has been recovered, since the silk makers’ guild was a reference in the rest of the world and one of the engines of the Valencian economy. The archive of the College of High Silk Art is the most important in Europe and preserves a large number of copies from its beginning to the present in the form of scrolls, books and archive boxes.
This building began to be rehabilitated on November 10, 2014, and on June 18, 2016 it opened its doors.
Located in the Jardins del Real, it occupies the building of an old restaurant of rationalist architecture. The historical origin of this Museum dates back to the late nineteenth century, with the gift made by Rodrigo Botet to the city of Valencia. It is the most important collection of South American Palaeontology present in Europe and gave rise to the first Palaeontological Museum on the continent and which, for almost a century, was in the historic building of the Almudín.
The Museum has several exhibition areas.
Science and technology. It shows how scientific knowledge is linked to technological advances, from the optical microscope to the electron microscope.
A classroom from other times. Tribute to the Science professors who with very few resources were able to arouse curiosity about scientific knowledge.
History of life and evolution. A journey through the different periods into which the age of the Earth is divided, which allows us to show that the Earth and living beings are the result of a history of more than 4000 million years of evolutionary change, of which we have evidence thanks to fossils; The Palaeontology of the Valencian Community allows us to better understand the evolution of the landscapes and ecosystems of our territory over time until the appearance of man, which represented in the rock shelters animals that coexisted with him and have become extinct in the environments in which they abounded thousands of years ago.
Bombas Gens Centre d’Art is the greatest commitment of the promoters of the Per Amor a l’Art Foundation in the field of art to turn it into the headquarters of its collection and other temporary exhibitions.
It includes the facilities of the old hydraulic pump factory of the same name, the shelter built for the factory and the cellar and the remains of the farmhouse discovered during the restoration, as well as an outdoor garden. Bombas Gens Centre d’Art was born with the idea of becoming a reference centre in the field of contemporary art.
The Torres de Quart are one of the two gates in the late medieval wall that Valencia conserves, as well as the Torres de los Serranos. If the Portal dels Serrans was the entrance from Aragon and Catalonia, the Quart Gate was, par excellence, the entrance from the Kingdom of Castile.
Built between 1441 and 1470 during the reign of Alfonso V and John II, coinciding with the great expansion with the consolidation of the city as the main cultural and political centre of the Crown of Aragon, they were one of the main architectural works of Valencia during this period. The original design of the work was most likely conceived by Francesc Baldomar taking as a model the Arc de Triomphe of Castel Nuovo in Naples, and was completed by Pere Compte and Pere Bonfill.
The Maritime Holy Week Museum brings together an important part of the artistic heritage of the different corporations, brotherhoods and brotherhoods. Works by distinguished sculptors such as Mariano Benlliure, Bernardo Morales, Carlos Román, Vicente Salvador, Francisco Martínez, Salvador Furió, Carmelo Vicent, Francisco Teruel, José María Ponsoda, Inocencio Cuesta, Francisco Ciurana, Ricardo Rico, Vicente Benedito, José Rodríguez or José Vicente Grafia.
The clothing, costumes of biblical characters, ornaments, banners, staff and publications, also offer a very attractive sample for the visitor.
The construction of the House of the Rocks dates from the fifteenth century, being located in a period between June 8, 1435 and April 8, 1447. The first known agreement corresponds to July 8, 1435, the date on which the city deliberated and approved the construction of a house, next to the Portal dels Serrans, between wall and wall, that is, between the oldest and the modern one of 1356, ordered built by Peter the Ceremonious, to serve as a shelter for the carts and other tools that accompanied the procession of Corpus Christi.
Possibly the planned house began to be built immediately, but surely it neither satisfied the Jurats nor, as far as has been seen, was everything as required of width to keep in it what has been planned, for this reason on May 5, 1441 it was agreed to enlarge it. Five years later, on March 22, 1446, the City agreed to purchase a tannery located in the district of Roteros. A month later, the Síndic announced its acquisition to the City Council and a year later, that is, on April 18, 1447, work began on the building. The completion of the works must be fixed in 1448.
There is no reliable evidence of the existence of a recognized author or authors, and it must be presumed that the intervention of the town worker or master builder who at that time – 1447 – was in charge of the projects, repairs and other tasks inherent to his trade, in the orders of the City Council.
The Military Historical Museum was built in 1898 for an Infantry Regiment. It has been occupied successively, as a result of the different reorganizations of the Army, by Infantry, Quartermaster and Logistics units, being at present the only barracks built for this purpose that exists in the City, which gives it a very important historical value.
The most striking thing about the construction, in addition to the typical and representative structure of large warehouses that overlook an interior courtyard at the time prepared for formations with livestock, is the cladding of the yard with tiles that give life to the large gallery that surrounds it, a large mural dedicated to Spain representing a large tree whose roots are born from each and every one of its Regions, a monolith to which they gave their lives for Spain and a large mast for the Flag complete it.
The Museum is located on the banks of the River Turia, today converted its bed into a large garden that serves as a route to a large cultural complex “A river of culture”, and that leaves the Museum centered between Museums of all Fine Arts and the complex of Science and Arts Museums entering the new century, this situation provides ample possibilities to attract visitors. The Museum currently occupies the warehouses facing General Gil Dolz street, where the access to it is located.
NOTICE: Due to the closures of Arzobispo Mayoral Street for the pyrotechnic
displays (mascletás) during the Fallas celebrations, from the 1st to the
19th of March, the visiting hours for the Municipal Exhibition Hall and
the Civil War Air Raid Shelter will be from 10:00 to 12:00 and from
15:30 to 19:00. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
From January 1937, with the capital of the Republic already settled in the city, until March 1939, Valencia and the seaside towns suffered incessant bombardments that sowed death and destruction. Tons of explosives were dropped on a defenseless and overwhelmed population that suddenly found war on their doorstep. Night and day, often without the warning of the sirens whose sound was enough to cause panic, planes and ships from the rebel side dropped bombs and projectiles on the city.
The Grail Hall is the only place in the world dedicated to the Holy Grail and explains why the chalice of Valencia could have been that of the Last Supper.
An interpretation center where we will know its history, its route to Hispania and its arrival in Valencia. And we will do it with all five senses. You can try food, smell spices, put on a Benedictine habit, dress up as a temper, light incense… enjoy the history and the last stage on the path of the search for the Holy Grail.
The Museum of Computer Science of the School of Computer Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Valencia offers an interesting journey through the last decades of the History of Computer Science. The museum was officially opened on December 11, 2001, and has been increasing its funds thanks to donations from individuals and institutions, both public and private.
It is one of the spaces that make up the City of Arts and Sciences. It is conceived as a center for the education and dissemination of science and technology based on interactivity.
