
Temporary exhibition: Prehistory in Uribe Kosta
Did you know that there are more than 70 prehistoric sites in Uribe Costa? Did you know that we have the only open-air site on the Iberian Peninsula about Homo neanderthalensis? Do you want to learn how they lived, what fauna existed or how they made their tools for more than 300,000 years in our lands? In the museum you

Temporary exhibition: Ships related to Plentzia
Ships related to Plentzia: 100 anniversary of the construction of the Magdalena, the last ship made in the shipyards. Shipwrecks of the Butrón, Principe de Asturias, Bonifaz

Shipwrecks in the Bay of Biscay
The temporary exhibition of 2019 has the collaboration of Ana Mª Benito (historian and and archaeologist) and Javier Mazpule (navigator, diver and founder of the Arkolur association), members of the Aranzadi and Arkeolur Sciences Society, specialists in maritime aspects and shipwrecks. Both have extensive experience in these issues, from archaeological work in the underwater site of Iturritxiki (in the Bay of

1998-2018: 20 Years. Anniversary of the museum. Temporary exhibition about History of Plentzia
A complete description of the history of Plentzia, beginning with the Paleolitic times until today, in form of “time-line”.

100º anniversary of the shipwreck of the “Príncipe de Asturias”.
The wreck of the “Principe de Asturias”, the largest ocean liner of its time in the Spanish merchant navy, has been surrounded by rumors and legends about the causes that led to the disaster. Also called “the Spanish Titanic“, it was involved in the turbulent times of the 1st World War, and the fact that, shortly before, the “Lusitania” and

IN MEMORIAM Ships of our castaways
Watercolors by Roberto Hérnandez. Plencia Lupita Gobeo Cartel Cartel

Basque whalers. Placentia in Newfoundland
Diorama and exhibition of tiles (XVth century), used in the sites for boiling whale fat. Lent by St. John´s museum (Canada). Diorama of the furnaces