Museo Geominero

The building is spectacular! I love the way they have the mineral set up very easy to go through. They have some beautiful local minerals as well as international minerals. You need a few hours to really enjoy it. Highly recommend for children. It’s a great learning experience into the world of geology.

Free museum, really well kept and the collection is HUGE. I love minerals and whenever I visit a new city I always go to Natural Science museums, because usually there are none dedicated only to minerals. On the ground floor you can find fossils, minerals and rocks. 1rst floor is dedicated to fossils and the second floor displays minerals and rocks found in Spain, divided by each region. The thing that I appreciated the most was that each mineral had it's own chemical composition written on the label, which was really cool and I've never found it before at any other museum I've visited!! If minerals are your passion or you have a few hours to spare, you should definitely pay a visit!

The museum is free, but you need to show your ID at the entrance. No reservation needed. The collection of minerals is impressive! The building itself is beautiful.

Would give it 10 star this place is amazing! So much information and so many gems and fossils to see! And it was free!!! Don’t forget to bring your passport to enter.

Gem of a place to visit. It rocked. The workshop for kids (in Spanish) is great and the building is beautiful.

This museum was an absolute gem (pun intended). There were thousands of fossils, rocks, and bones to marvel at spread out over several floors that were accessible via spiral staircases. The space itself was stunning, with a large open ground floor (that had a mastodon skull on display!), glass sunroof, and exhibits around the periphery. The descriptions were almost all in Spanish, but even without the descriptions, the items on display were impressive. Definitely a must-see if you're in the area.

The Museo Geominero is a free museum located in Ríos Rosas, Madrid. While the Spanish Geological and Mining Institute (IGME) dates to 1849 the museum itself has been open to the public since 1927. The museum is located in the hq of the IGME which was constructed between 1921 and 1925 and designed by Spanish architect Francisco Javier de Luque. The museum has an excellent collection of rocks, minerals and fossils which are a lot of fun to look at compare. Specimens on display are predominantly from Spain and its former colonies. The architecture of the grand hall however was a personal highlight as the huge open central gallery space was truly quite breathtaking. The coloured stained-glass ceiling gives the hall an open feeling unlike other I have experienced before and made the space feel quite prestigious. The museum is free to enter and really impressed me upon my visit, it has metro access via the Ríos Rosas stop on the Madrid Metro.

Fantastic museum for all rock fans! Free to visit too, a very satisfying experience and the building it is housed in is beautiful

A beautiful and interesting museum off the beaten track. If you're in town for more than a few days or have kids who are starting to roll their eyes at art museums, this is a great change of pace. It's free, but you will have to show a passport or national ID to get in. My kids and I made a trip here but were turned away for not having an appropriate ID. We went back a few days later, and it was worth the second trip. The collection was amazing. Curation is not a strong point of the museum, which is essentially a great hall with hundreds of glass cases housing minerals and fossils, but the architecture of the building and several of the more interesting pieces make up for it.