Museo Arqueológico
19 opiniones Plaza Blas Infante, 1, Estepona, Málaga www.estepona.es/turismo Sugerir una edición
28 octubre 2023 9:39
Aunque era pequeño, tenía un contenido rico y fuerte. En el museo estaban presentes artefactos de las épocas del bronce y la plata, la época romana e islámica, la atención se centró en los artefactos de cerámica antiguos que tenían diseños islámicos, las monedas romanas me llamaron la atención, visitar este museo es gratis y en Entre los antiguos y hermosa textura de la ciudad, que está llena de flores moradas, lo recomiendo mucho
21 octubre 2023 3:46
Pequeño, pero con muchas cosas que ver y aprender. Es gratuito, en un edifico bonito e histórico de la ciudad. Ideal para visitar con niños
31 mayo 2023 1:21
El museo está muy bien y es muy interesante. Sin embargo hay audiovisuales que no funcionan y el aspecto empieza a parecer descuidado. Una pena. El enclave incomparable.
01 mayo 2023 16:45
Personalmente encontré los artículos mostrados muy interesantes. Un miembro masculino del personal que se ofreció como voluntario también estaba bien informado y era útil.
11 abril 2023 12:56
Personalmente, los artículos expuestos me parecieron muy interesantes. Un miembro masculino del personal que se ofreció como voluntario también estaba bien informado y era servicial.
11 marzo 2023 10:28
He ido muchas veces, tanto en finde como entre semana, y es que me encanta. Merece mucho la pena y es gratuito. El mismo edificio (La Beneficencia) incluye también un museo etnográfico.
27 julio 2022 12:29
Un sitio muy interesante, no puede dejar de ver este sitio si va Estepona, además es gratuito.
08 julio 2022 23:48
So much history here, all dated and catalog by history time-line, so much historical data of Estepona
24 junio 2022 9:57
Fui a pedir las entradas para el orquidário y la entrada del Selwo, la que nos dan gratis cada alo a los esteponeros. No llegué a entrar al museo.
02 junio 2022 9:41
Un lugar bonito, con exposiciones interesantes, lo recomiendo, está en el casco histórico de Estepona.
06 agosto 2021 23:16
Es pequeñito y muestra parte de restos arqueológicos se han ido encontrando en la localidad.
27 junio 2021 18:02
Musée bien fourni et pas prétentieux du tout.les salles sont assez petites mais les vitrines contiennent des trésors.
18 junio 2021 21:48
Muy interesante. Merece la pena visitarlo, aunque todos las reseñas están sólo en español.
16 junio 2021 2:28
Only three stars because it is only in Spanish. This is not a big deal, but some of the best bits for me required you to be able to read 16th-century documents in Olde Worlde Spanish.
With good English descriptions, 4 stars.
Even if you can't read Old Spanish, it's worth popping in just to admire the 18th-century gentleman's residence. Magnificent. Not what you expect to see on a holiday to the Costa del Sol.
This is the "Casa del Aljibe" - formerly the Town Hall (still some administrative offices upstairs) and before that a gracious residence with foundations dating back to Moorish times.
It is worth a visit for the building alone, which is built in the typical 18th century style of a rich gentleman's dwelling. You start with a large entrance porch, called a Zaguan. Traditionally these have been considered part of the street rather than the house, and so in the past beggars or vendors might set up there, and people had no compunction about sheltering inside out of the occasional winter rainstorm.
The Zaguan always leads to a central patio, here we have a beautiful example. In the centre is the well leading to the "aljibe" after which the house was named - a very old water storage tank said to date back to Moorish times. If you are not quite sure, Moorish times here in Andalusia refers to the period between 711 and 1492 when the Muslim Caliphs of Cordoba and Emirs of Granada ruled. Over 700 years of Islamic history -
All around the patio at first-floor level is a beautiful balcony, now glassed in but originally open to the patio. This balcony is in fact the corridor giving access to the rooms at that level; a handsome staircase leads up there. Traditionally, the maids lived further up above in the attics, rooms too cold in winter and too hot in summer for the ladies and gentlemen to inhabit!
Here the patio has been enclosed by an attractive glass roof; when the house was first built, this was open to the sky.
The museum is on the ground floor only, with different rooms for different periods. There are loads of interesting exhibits, and if you are a habitué of museums elsewhere, you can guess what the objects are.
The first room is pre-history, Phoenicians and the Roman Conquest. The second one concentrates on the Roman period.
I was very interested in the two rooms looking at the 700+ years of Moorish rule, when the town was "Medina Istibbuna", but the bit that I most enjoyed was an exhibition in the patio of old documents.
There was a typed version of a series of documents dating back to 1502. That first was written just ten years after the army of Queen Isabel and King Fernando (yes, that's right: the ones in the Sky TV series) laid siege to Santa Fe just outside Granada, the Moorish King capitulated, and it was the end of seven centuries of Moorish rule in Spain.
The Spanish King and Queen ordered a castle to be built on the ruins of the Moorish fortress in Estepona, and land to be purchased to build 20 dwellings around it. The aim was clearly to start a Christian town around the castle.
And it was successful, as in 1526 another document shows that there were now 25 or 26 householders living there. These houses formed the first two streets of modern Estepona; they are just down the road from this museum, the Calle Villa and the Calle Castillo on either side of the castle.
Another document describes a legal dispute between Estepona and Marbella in 1618 over grazing rights, particularly pigs and acorns - the famous "jamón de bellota" from acorn-fed pigs already important!
But my favourite was the document of 1617, when a wealthy gentleman of Estepona sets out in a legal document the items that he gave his wife on their marriage, to be her personal possessions. These were:
* a chest
* a mattress
* 4 sheets
* a set of bed hangings
* 2 pillows
* 1 towel
Only one towel? He wasn't expecting her to go down to the beach then!
I think that you will enjoy seeing this beautiful house and looking at the exhibits. Children will enjoy more the Paleontological museum with dinosaurs by the Plaza de Toros.
With good English descriptions, 4 stars.
Even if you can't read Old Spanish, it's worth popping in just to admire the 18th-century gentleman's residence. Magnificent. Not what you expect to see on a holiday to the Costa del Sol.
This is the "Casa del Aljibe" - formerly the Town Hall (still some administrative offices upstairs) and before that a gracious residence with foundations dating back to Moorish times.
It is worth a visit for the building alone, which is built in the typical 18th century style of a rich gentleman's dwelling. You start with a large entrance porch, called a Zaguan. Traditionally these have been considered part of the street rather than the house, and so in the past beggars or vendors might set up there, and people had no compunction about sheltering inside out of the occasional winter rainstorm.
The Zaguan always leads to a central patio, here we have a beautiful example. In the centre is the well leading to the "aljibe" after which the house was named - a very old water storage tank said to date back to Moorish times. If you are not quite sure, Moorish times here in Andalusia refers to the period between 711 and 1492 when the Muslim Caliphs of Cordoba and Emirs of Granada ruled. Over 700 years of Islamic history -
All around the patio at first-floor level is a beautiful balcony, now glassed in but originally open to the patio. This balcony is in fact the corridor giving access to the rooms at that level; a handsome staircase leads up there. Traditionally, the maids lived further up above in the attics, rooms too cold in winter and too hot in summer for the ladies and gentlemen to inhabit!
Here the patio has been enclosed by an attractive glass roof; when the house was first built, this was open to the sky.
The museum is on the ground floor only, with different rooms for different periods. There are loads of interesting exhibits, and if you are a habitué of museums elsewhere, you can guess what the objects are.
The first room is pre-history, Phoenicians and the Roman Conquest. The second one concentrates on the Roman period.
I was very interested in the two rooms looking at the 700+ years of Moorish rule, when the town was "Medina Istibbuna", but the bit that I most enjoyed was an exhibition in the patio of old documents.
There was a typed version of a series of documents dating back to 1502. That first was written just ten years after the army of Queen Isabel and King Fernando (yes, that's right: the ones in the Sky TV series) laid siege to Santa Fe just outside Granada, the Moorish King capitulated, and it was the end of seven centuries of Moorish rule in Spain.
The Spanish King and Queen ordered a castle to be built on the ruins of the Moorish fortress in Estepona, and land to be purchased to build 20 dwellings around it. The aim was clearly to start a Christian town around the castle.
And it was successful, as in 1526 another document shows that there were now 25 or 26 householders living there. These houses formed the first two streets of modern Estepona; they are just down the road from this museum, the Calle Villa and the Calle Castillo on either side of the castle.
Another document describes a legal dispute between Estepona and Marbella in 1618 over grazing rights, particularly pigs and acorns - the famous "jamón de bellota" from acorn-fed pigs already important!
But my favourite was the document of 1617, when a wealthy gentleman of Estepona sets out in a legal document the items that he gave his wife on their marriage, to be her personal possessions. These were:
* a chest
* a mattress
* 4 sheets
* a set of bed hangings
* 2 pillows
* 1 towel
Only one towel? He wasn't expecting her to go down to the beach then!
I think that you will enjoy seeing this beautiful house and looking at the exhibits. Children will enjoy more the Paleontological museum with dinosaurs by the Plaza de Toros.
31 mayo 2021 21:55
A charming Archaeological museum in Estepona, found in Plaza Blas Infante. Entry is free, and you find interesting pieces from prehistory from the Roman and Phoenician times, such as ceramic utensils, bowls and pots. Worth a visit!
02 julio 2020 0:12
Como su nombre indica es un museo arqueológico muy bien organizado por etapas históricas, recogiendo todos los restos arqueológicos que se han podido encontrar, seguramente con mucho interés y esfuerzo, en el entorno municipal de Estepona, desde la época prehistórica hasta nuestros días, pasando por la dominación árabe. Es sumamente ilustrativo de nuestra historia y es un placer recorrerlo por lo inteligente y bien organizado que está.
06 junio 2020 22:27
Se ubica en el antiguo ayuntamiento, edificio del siglo XIX construido sobre un aljibe árabe. Se compone de varias salas y es gratis.
06 noviembre 2019 8:16
Un museo bien estructurado, para estar un buen rato viendo los objetos y descripciones detalladas de la historia de Estepona, tiene una buena colección de ánforas, monedas, anzuelos, y un largo etc.
21 abril 2019 2:54
Instalado en el antiguo edificio del Ayuntamiento y compuesto por cuatro salas muy bien presentadas.