FAQ's Car Rental Flights Activities Locations Management

The La Manga and Murcia region has many different museums. The main city of Cartagena is a major Naval port and therefore has Military and Navy related Museums as well as other archaelogical exhibitions.

San Javier has a museum dedicated to "the Nativity" and entirely different exhibitions on Nature and Reporters.

Los Alcázares is the location of a Museum dedicated to the development of the local air base.

San Pedro del Pinatar
Sea Museum
Address: C/ Ingeniero Lorenzo Morales, 2. Edificio Hogar del Pescador, 2 Dcha Telephone: 968 181 920 The Sea Museum belongs to the Fishermen's Association and it exhibits collections of large seashells, fish teeth, mollusc shells, miniature typical fishing devices from this area (such as the recently recovered "encañizadas", a gadget made of screen and net), collections of knots and cartographic maps, etc.
Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
Address: C/ Dr. Mirón de Castro, s/n. Edificio de Usos Múltiples Telephone: 968 188 030 This 100-meter long exhibition is divided into different sections forming a chronological route. In the first showcases you will see some of the remains from the area, fossils and paleontological objects. Then you can move on to pre-history, where you will see those objects used by the Iberian peoples, and later on you will reach the sections on Roman, Medieval and Islamic history. Lastly, you can visit the ethnographic section, showing objects from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, with materials such as the ration cards used during the Civil War, letters and photos showing typical situations in the lives of the inhabitants of San Pedro del Pinatar during the last few centuries. The second room (main section and largest collection in the museum) contains all objects related to submarine archaeology that have been obtained from mari ne remains in the area which is being preserved. The whole exhibition has a didactic component and is supported by informational panels where you can find out about the details of the history and the origin of each sample.
San Javier
San Javier Museum Address: Ctra. Pinatar, San Javier. Telephone: 968 192 526 Opening times: SUMMER: Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10:00AM to 12:30PM and 6:00PM to 8:30PM, Sundays: from 11:00AM to 1:30PM. Mondays: closed. WINTER: Tuesdays to Saturdays from 9:30AM to 12:30PM. and 4:00PM to 5:30PM. Sundays: from 11:00AM to 1:30PM. Mondays: closed
Nativity Museum
Figures and scenes from the large-scale nativity scene that is set up every year in the roundabout, a master work of Nativity art showing a combination of religion and history and representing an ethnographical element of great interest. Three are the sections: in the first one, a representation of the Mysteries in the life of Jesus; the second one deals with customs and shows typical images and professions practiced in the region; and the third one is an international sample of Nativity art.
Ethnographic Museum
Earth, sea and air in San Javier, where we can visit all the aspects of its history through different sections, such as daily life, family, social and cultural aspects of the area, the land and rural work and devices, the sea, with models of "encañizadas" and traditional fishing devices, the Air Force Academy, with a real plane and documents and the Archaeological Sample, etc.
Reporter's Museum
A permanent exhibition about journalist Tico Medina's life, with sections such as newspaper archives, journalist tools, characters, paintings, interesting facts, etc.
Parish Museum
Address: San Javier Parish Church Telephone: 968 571 085 Antique liturgical objects and a relic of San Francisco Javier
Los Alcázares
Aeronautical Museum
Address: Avda. Libertad,num. 37, next to the Air base. Telephone: 968 582 107, Concerted Visit: 968 334 560 An exhibition of all the documents, photographs and materials about the story of the Los Alcázares air base since it opened in 1915 until today.
Cartagena
National Museum of Maritime Archaeology
Address: Dique de Navidad, s/n Telephone: 968 121 166 Opening times: WINTER: Tuesdays to Saturdays from 9:30AM to 3:00PM, Sundays and bank holidays from 10:00AM to 3:00PM. Price: 2.40 _ Although its transfer to a new place in the Muelle de Alfonso XII is currently projected, it may be currently found in such a unique place as the Dique de Navidad. This museum, like the National Centre for Submarine Archaeology Research, was founded in June, 1980, although it did not open until 1982, celebrating the 7th International Congress for Submarine Archaeology.
Local Archaeology Museum "Enrique Escudero de Castro"
Address: C/ Ramón y Cajal, 45 Telephone: 968 539 027 Opening times: Tuesdays to Fridays from 10:00AM to 2:00PM and 5:00PM to 8:00PM, Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00AM to 2:00PM (closed Mondays and bank holidays) The Municipal Archaeology Museum of Cartagena constitutes the main axis of the archaeological activities of the city and its region. Its collections, beginning from the 16th Century, kept increasing until they were finally collected in an old building that would become the first Museum, founded in 1943.
Naval Museum
Address: Menéndez Pelayo, 8 Telephone: 968 127 138 Opening times: Tuesdays to Sundays from 10:00AM to 1:30PM. The Naval Museum of Cartagena, opened on July 8th, 1986, may be found in a beautiful modernist building. Its subject matter mainly covers the Navy in the Mediterranean Sea; the Submarines, Naval Construction in Cartagena and Mediterranean Cartography, etc.
Battery Museum
Address: Pza. de López Pinto Telephone: 968 501 300 Opening times: Mondays to Fridays from 10:00AM to 1:30PM Its galleries collect different aspects about the history of this Military department in this city through maps, miniatures, models, documents, weapons, uniforms and paintings.

Carmen Conde - Antonio Oliver Museum
Address: C/ Jacinto Benavente, 6 Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy Telephone: 968 128 855 Opening times: Mondays to Fridays from 9:00AM to 2:00PM In 1995, the local writer and RAE-member Carmen Conde agreed with the City Council of Cartagena to donate the furniture and equipment from her former living room and office in Madrid, as well as her invaluable archives-library. All of this has been placed in the 'Ramón Alonso Luzzy' Cultural Centre, where one of the rooms faithfully reflects the atmosphere in which the marriage created part of their important work. Thus was born the Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver Museum. In 1995, the local writer and RAE-member Carmen Conde agreed with the City Council of Cartagena to donate the furniture and equipment from her former living room and office in Madrid, as well as her invaluable archives-library.
Spanish Civil War Shelter Museum
Address: Dirección: C/ Gisbert, no 10 Telephone: 968 50 00 93 Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday 10am until 2pm and 4pm until 7pm These galleries, which were dug out inside the hill of La Concepción as antiaircraft refuges, were not finished due to the end of the war and was part of some of the works performed to build refuges for about 5,500 people. Since the city was the Naval Base for most of the Republican fleet, it was severely affected by the bombings.
Cabo de Palos
Centre of Information and Exhibitions
Address: Paseo del Puerto, Cabo de Palos Telephone: 968 145 309 / 606 426 120 Opening times: Open from October 1st to June 30th: Saturdays at 7:00PM Here you can find out more about the nature reserves in the area as well as water sports like scuba diving. Also you will learn about the ship wreaks that lie off the coast of Cabo de Palos.

Travel Insurance from only £6.99 per week

Airport Parking - Best prices guaranteed

Currency Exchange, Preferential Exchange rates, lower charges

Museums in La Manga