Museo Nacional de Antropología (Madrid)

History

Structure

• Ground floor. The Asia hall, devoting a special attention to the culture of the Philippines, a Spanish colony until 1898, with many items taken from an 1885 exposition in nearby Retiro Park. It also dedicates side rooms to temporary exhibitions and a Wunderkammer giving an impression of the early exhibitions including a plaster cast and the skeleton of the "Extremaduran Giant", and statues and plaster casts of several racial types.
• First floor. The Africa hall, with a prominent representation of the culture of Equatorial Guinea, a Spanish colony until 1959.

• Second floor. The Americas hall, covering indigenous peoples of the Americas, with items like Jivaro reduced heads, Andean Carnival masks, and Inuit sun glasses.