Mining Institute Museum

The Mining Institute Museum comprises two museums: the Mining Art Museum and the Mineralogy Museum.

In 1998, a group of miners created the Mining Art Museum. The aim was to preserve and raise awareness of many of the things that enabled miners to dominate the rock and, by studying and creating new things, become the architects of a mining culture that for centuries was the centre of social and economic life in much of our island and beyond.

The new displays in the Mineralogy Museum have recently been inaugurated.

The “Bricks of the Earth” room introduces visitors to the world of mineralogy through a multimedia exhibition that displays a careful selection of minerals from the entire collection and tells the story, through a sequence of images specially filmed and shown on monitors and video projections, of the formation of the Iglesiente geographical landscape by the four natural elements: water, air, earth and fire, and the passage of geological time, which has marked the slow process of the Earth's formation since its origins.