National Museum and Research Center of Altamira

Poor experience due to language

The museum is interesting, but we had a poor experience due to language. Our tour with 12 family members was confirmed at booking and check-in to be held in English. Our guide, in fact, didn't speak...

Extremely unpleasant and rude guide, but interesting & Impressive museum and cave.

Museum section is good, interesting, has many interesting information panels and artefacts. The problem, for me was the guided tour in the cave. As of my visit, (August 2023), you could only visit the...

Interesting and worth a trip from Santander

We visited the museum on a Sunday morning. It was not too busy. There is an interesting pre exhibition and then you enter a mock up of the caves. We found it interesting and worth the trip.

Very long queues!

Queued for over an hour in the rain for tickets because there was only one person in the ticket office. The “caves” are a simulation of the actual caves, which is not made clear anywhere. The museum ...

Times of Altamira

The discovery of the Altamira Caves is credited to Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola in 1879, but in actual fact, his 8-year-old daughter, Maria first noticed that the cave ceilings were covered with images ...