Museo de America

This national museum houses 25,000 pieces of art and historical artifacts from the American continent. In addition to the afflicted heads displayed there, dead human heads were apparently used by Native Americans as amulets. The museum is located far from the center of Madrid, close to the bus complex, and close to competitors such as the Museum of Ethnography. The museum was established in 1941, but it should be noted that many of the pieces on display have a history older than the establishment of the exhibition. This museum seeks to collect collections of pieces and information related to American archeology and ethnology, with the aim of displaying them in attractive and understandable ways, to make this knowledge available to the public, rather than being the preserve of scholars and researchers.