Description
To the north of the province of Jaén and located in the city of La Carolina, capital of the "Nuevos Poblos de Sierra Morena," The Museum of La Carolina is integrated into the majestic building of the Palacio del Intendente Olavide, where it offers countless possibilities of knowledge, culture, history and research of the city. The building that houses the Museum of La Carolina has the latest technologies, an unbeatable infrastructure and a human team that make it an inescapable cultural and tourist resource when visiting the city.
On the basis of the fact that it was the Archaeological Museum of La Carolina and continuing the previous trajectory, this museum centre was opened in 2011 to gather, preserve, investigate and transmit the historical cultural heritage and the testimony of the human communities that have lived and left their mark on this territory, a land so linked to mining and to the despeñacolos parade.
An important and exceptional collection of all types of objects, together with the achievement of museum and multimedia resources, allow us to know the physical characteristics of the territory and the uniqueness of its natural environment, as well as to make a chronological journey through its history, from the first vestiges of human remains in the Paleolithic, to practically today. Highlighting stages as important as the Spanish-Roman mining, the period of creation and development of the New Populations as a colonizing project of Charles III and the intense contemporary mining activity that ended at the end of the last century, traces all so present in the collective memory of its inhabitants.
On the other hand, the Museum of La Carolina offers a wide range of temporary exhibitions and activities, both in the museum itself and in the territory.
