European Heritage Days

To celebrate the European Heritage Days there will be free admission to the Nerja Museum all day on Saturday October 27th.

Collaboration to improve the Nerja Museum

The Science Park in Granada has agreed to join the advisory committee of the Nerja Museum with a view to improving activities and content at the facility. There are already plans to add information and exhibits relating to the watchtowers around Nerja as well as relating to sugar production, an important part of the history of the town.

Napoleon on display in the Nerja Museum

The ‘Napoleon’ skull, a fragment of bone dating back 4,300 years which was discovered in the Nerja Caves in 1960, is now on display in the Nerja Museum.

‘Prehistory’ exhibition at the Nerja Museum

The Nerja Museum is home to an exhibition entitled ‘ Prehistory in the province of Malaga through the Temboury Legacy’ and the exhibition continues until September 2nd.

Museum to open as soon as opening licence is issued

The sub-delegate of the Málaga Provincial Government and president of the Nerja Caves Foundation, Hilario López Luna, announced yesterday that the Nerja History Museum will open the day after the Nerja Council issues an opening licence for the facility. The museum was completed in March.

Response to planned opening of the History Museum

The spokesperson for the Municipal Government and member of the Nerja Caves Foundation, José Miguel García, has expressed his satisfaction at the planned opening of the new History Museum, describing it as a ‘first class cultural facility’.

Some progress on History Museum project

The company Playmedia has begun to equip the future Nerja History Museum and, if all goes to plan and there are no more ‘administrative’ hold-ups, the museum should be open next spring.

A change of battlegound

The long-awaited visit to the Nerja Museum by various Councillors and the AEN (Employers Association) has been variously described as a ‘disgraceful’ and ‘shameful’ spectacle as the major combatants in the ‘Battle for the Caves’ took the opportunity to engage in political rhetoric and launch verbal attacks on each other.