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The most interesting museums and places to visit with children in Asturias
Asturias is a veritable paradise of museums and other places to see with children, with lots of activities and workshops for the whole family to have a great time.
Asturias is a real paradise of museums and other places to visit with children, with many activities, workshops and incentives for them to spend unforgettable and educational moments in the company of their families.
El Muja - Jurassic Museum of Asturias
The Jurassic Museum of Asturias (Muja), in Colunga, is a unique place, with beautiful views of the surroundings, and where the little ones can learn all about the world of dinosaurs through different activities and workshops.
The exterior of the Muja is a recreation of the Jurassic period and its inhabitants. It has more than twenty life-size replicas of different dinosaurs, as well as fossilised trunks and vegetation from the Jurassic period. There is also a photocall with a replica of dinosaur eggs, where children can get inside and take fun photographs.
The Park of Life and the Giant Squid Museum
Both the Parque de la Vida and the Giant Squid Museum are located in the council of Valdés.
The Park of Life, located in La Mata, is a museum with 750 metres of indoor exhibitions on cosmic life, astronautics, and the seas, as well as fossils, laboratories, workshops, planetarium, etc. In addition, you will have three hectares of native forest on a walk of one and a half kilometres, as well as a Pekepark, for children to investigate life on a two-hundred-metre route.
The Luarca/Ḷḷuarca Giant Squid Museum contains the world's largest collection of large cephalopods, as well as recreating their ecosystem, in which their prey and predators coexist, all of them in the depths of the Cantabrian Sea.
The Ethnographic Museum of Grandas de Salime "Pepe el Ferreiro".
The Ethnographic Museum of Grandas de Salime "Pepe el Ferreiro", named after its founder, is an ideal place to immerse yourself in traditional culture, and to do so in a pleasant and didactic way, as its programme includes different workshops and activities.
This museum has a surface area of more than 3000 square metres and is located in the old Rectory House of the town, and has three main buildings: Rectory House, Casa del Molinero and A Casoa, as well as a mill, a granary, a breadbasket, a cabazo and a chapel.
The Aquarium and the Atlantic Botanical Garden
Gijón/Xixón offers you a wide variety of plans to enjoy with your children, including visits to the Bioparc Acuario and the Atlantic Botanical Garden.
The Gijón/Xixón Bioparc Aquarium takes you on a tour of 60 freshwater and saltwater aquariums. There are a total of 12 ecosystems and more than two million litres of water to recreate the life of rivers and oceans from all over the planet, with 4,500 animals and 410 species.
In addition, there is a section with a wide variety of activities, all with an environmental and natural didactic focus.
The Atlantic Botanical Garden of Gijón/Xixónis a plant museum based on specialised collections of flora, with an intense educational and entertainment agenda. Ideal for the whole family to enjoy its 19 hectares that can be visited.
The Prehistoric Park of Teverga
The Prehistoric Park, located in San Salvador de Alesga (Teverga), allows you to discover the most important examples of European cave art with your family. It is a journey to the most remote past, both indoors and outdoors, as the Park has an animal enclosure, where you can see Przewalski horses (of prehistoric origin), European bison, Heck's aurochs, deer, fallow deer, tartan horses, etc.
In addition, the enclosure is an ideal complement to the guided visit to the Park's Gallery and Cave of Caves, as well as to the workshops and activities that take place there.
Tito Bustillo Rock Art Centre
The Tito Bustillo Cave Art Centre is an interpretative space in the Tito Bustillo Cave, which will allow you to see all the paintings in this World Heritage cave in detail, including those that you will not be able to see during your visit to the cave. You will also be able to look at utensils and objects found in the cave and find out who the discoverers were and what the discovery was like. They will also tell you all about the geology of the Ardines massif, where Tito Bustillo and other caves are located.
And the little ones will have a great time with the many activities related to prehistory.
The Reception and Interpretation Centre of Asturian Pre-Romanesque Art
The Asturian Pre-Romanesque Art Reception and Interpretation Centre offers a walk through the different stages of Asturian Pre-Romanesque Art and the 15 monuments that make up this architecture.
The Centre has a permanent exhibition and other temporary exhibitions, and also organises many activities for children, who have a specific area for drawing pictures of Asturian pre-Romanesque monuments.
Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias
The Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, located in the heart of the historic centre of Oviedo/Uviéu, is housed in a group of buildings dating from the 16th to the 21st century, which occupy part of a block overlooking the Cathedral Square.
The museum currently has one of the best public art collections in Spain, and has a year-round programme of educational and entertaining activities for children.
The Mining Ecomuseum "Valle de Samuño".
The " Valle de Samuño" Mining Ecomuseum in La Nueva (Langreo) is a unique and very pleasant place for your children to become miners for a few hours. Located in the San Luis Pit, you can enjoy one of the best examples of cultural architecture at the service of the industry, with its castle and engine room.
What's more, you'll be able to travel on an authentic mining train, making your experience even more adventurous.
The Museum of Mining and Industry of Asturias - Mumi
The Museum of Mining and Industry of Asturias (Mumi) is the oldest of all the facilities dedicated to industrial heritage in Asturias.
Built on the old slag heap of the historic San Vicente shaft, it brings together a complete sample of what mining activity was like, and recreates the atmosphere of a real mine in the so-called 'mine-image', as well as having a mining railway. Both the 'mine-image' and the railway will be two fantastic experiences for your children.
The Maritime Museum of Asturias
The Asturias Maritime Museum is located in the fishing village of Lluanco/Luanco, capital of the council of Gozón, on the central coast of Asturias.
Dedicated to maritime activity in its multiple manifestations, it provides a complete vision of the facets of the marine world, and it does so through documentation, bibliography, objects, images, etc.
This facility is ideal to visit with the family, and also for children to participate in its workshops and educational programmes.
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