The Valencia History Museum, opened on 7 May 2003, is near the Cabecera Park, located in a building that was originally the first water basin in the city, one of the best examples of industrial architecture of the mid-19th century.
The Valencian Museum of Ethnology, located in La Beneficencia Cultural Centre (Welfare House), was created in 1982 by the Provincial Council Valencia. Its objectives are research and dissemination in the field of ethnology and anthropology, making available to the public a dynamic space of knowledge and reflection on the cultural diversity that characterises humans in two complementary areas.
The Fine Arts Museum of Valencia is the most important museum in the Region of Valencia. Since its opening in 1839 until now, almost two centuries have passed, in which it has witnessed numerous changes linked to the historical evolution of the city of Valencia.
The Municipal History Museum is located in the City Hall of the Plaça de l’Ajuntament, which used to be part of the Royal House of Teaching, founded by Archbishop Mayoral in the 18th century, and in the part where the Church of Santa Rosa de Lima was located. It was created in 1927 to guard the rich historical-artistic municipal heritage, highlighting notable relics from the former City House, of great significance to the history of Valencia.
The Bullfighting Museum of Valencia was founded in 1929 with funds donated by Luis Moróder Peiró, a bullfighting fan and by a bullfighter’s assistant José Bayard Badila, two collectors who spent years amassing a large number of materials and objects from Valencian bullfighting of the 19th and early 20th century.
Pinazo house-museum, located in the municipality of Godella, includes works by the painter Ignacio Pinazo (1849 - 1916) and his sons José Pinazo Martínez (1879 - 1933), a painter, and Ignacio Pinazo Martínez (1883 - 1970), a sculptor.
The Garín factory belonged to a silk-making family, whose activity dates back to the mid-18th century. The first Garín whose activity is documented is Mariano Garín, who enrolled as an apprentice in the College of High Silk Art of Valencia on 21 April 1748. On 10 December 1764, he took a master silk-maker examination in the area of velvet. The Garín family have maintained uninterrupted silk-making activity for seven generations.
The Museum of Palmito d’Aldaia (MUPA) is located in the Casa de la Llotgeta. The MUPA is the first and only museum in Spain dedicated to fan craftsmanship and since 2015 it has belonged to the Valencian Museum System.
This is a former brick factory that was established in 1924 and its company was in operation until the 1990s, when the City Council acquired the land and began the refurbishing process, leading to the creation of the museum, which became part of the Valencian Museum System of the Government of Valencia.
The building that is currently home to the Ethnological Museum is a typical 18th century manor house in which the bases for the homogenisation of spelling for Valencian, known as the “Normes de Castelló” or “Normes del 32”, were approved, and in which, since 1931, the Castellón Culture Society had been based.