Old Charity Hospital (Hospital de Caridad) - (1892) Founded to care for people hurt during the mining activity. Rectangular plan with central chapel and surrounding wards for patients. Rectangular plan with central chapel and surrounding wards for patients. Octagonal tower with hemispheric dome and small superior lantern. Adopted as a cultural centre, it shelters the biggest Roman mosaic in the region, "triclinium"  flooring of the Roman village of Portman, C II - III.  Location is Calle Caridad, location G on the local Portman map. Located up the hill from the elementary school. Admission is €1.80 for adults and €.90 for children. Photos of some mosaics below:

 

 

 

The Mining Museum is situated in the building Licero de Obreros (Workers High School) and represents a required reference in the history of Spanish mining. It's collection is made up of mining tools, scale models of some processes and a room dedicated to the miners. With this varied collection of pieces, the museum suggest an itinerary through La Union mining tradition.

 

Minesongs festival Museum

Noria, 30360 La Union Tel: +34 968541614

 

 

Roche:

 

As well as being the town's Interpretation Centre, the museum hosts a large collection daily utensils used by the inhabitants. This permanent ethnological exhibition is made up of a series of elements for lighting, weights and measures, pottery and glass items, cloths, farming implements and containers made of esparto grass.

 

Cartagena:

Municipal Archeological Museum (Museo Arqueologico Municipal)

Ramon y Cajal 45, Tel: +34 968539027

The present day premises are built on a late Roman necropolis that was discovered  on that ery site. Inside you can see the major settlement surrounded by two floors that house the museum's collections. The epigraphic collection is of special interest as it is the largest in Spain.

Cartagena Naval Museum (Museo naval)

Menendez Pelayo 8, Tel: +34 968127138

Of particular note is the ship model collection, cartography collection, and the hall devoted to Issac Peral, the Cartaginian engineer and designer of the famous submarine.

 

National Maritime archeology Museum - Submarine research national center (Museo Natcional de Arqueologia Maritima)

Dique Navidad, Tel: +34 968121166

Open Tues-Sun 1000-1500

The museums resources bear witness to the investigation of ancient sea traffic routes. Of particular note  are the amphorae, remains of different shipwrecks, and a model of a part of a Roman merchant ship.

Military Museum (Museo Militar

Plaza de Lopez Pinto, Tel.: 968 501 300

The museum's galleries  exhibit aspects of the military history of the city through maps, models, documents, weapons, uniforms and paintings.

 

Murcia photography records center (cehiform)

Palacio Aguirre, Plaza de la Merced, 16, Cartagena

 

San Javier:

San Javier Museum (El Museo de san javier)

Avanida de la Libertad, 37 Tel: +34 968192526

Situated in the old Civil Guard headquarters, it contains three different halls: Ethnological Hall, lifesytle of local Spanish ancestors; Land, sea and air, showing local scenes and tools used for agricultural work, fishing techniques and a large collection of pictures of the beginnings of the General Air Academy. In the Nativity Scene Hall there is a permanent exhibition which is set up each year in front of the Town Hall. The Reporter's Hall showing the life experiences of a local journalist, Tico Medina.

 

Parish Museum (Museo Parroquial)

Parish church of San Francisco Javier, Tel: +34 968571085

Overview of Christian worship over the centuries and a monstrance containing a relic of the Patron saint of the town.

 

 

San Pedro del pinatar:

SEA Museum (Museo del Mar)

Hogar del Pescador, C/ Lorenzo Morales, Tel: +34 968181920

This museum is owned by the Fisherman's Brotherhood and exhibits a collection of sea shells, fish teeth, mollusc shells, miniature fishing artefacts typically used in the Mar Menor, nude collections, maps, etc.

 

 

Los Alcazares:

Aeronautics Museum

Avanida de la Libertad, 37 Tel: +34 968582107

This museum is located beside the former air base. It houses documents, photographs, and equipment preserved from the history of the Los Alcazeres base since it's birth as an aerodrome in 1915 to the present day.

 

 

Aguilas:

Railway Museum

Aguilas Railway Station, Tel: +34 667501488

Aguilas Archeological museum AND SEA KNOWLEDGE CENTER

Conde de Aranda, 5 Tel: +34 968493287