museo de la evolucion humana

I really enjoyed this museum and believe me I can be easily bored by them. It's amazing what can be done when world heritage money is poured in. The life size models of different hominids were particularly good and excellent for demonstrating a timeline. I also enjoyed the videos of other important sites in Spain and France as I have visited them all. The gallery assistant/guides were very knowledgeable and helpful as were the reception staff. My only gripe really was that the downstairs shop was not open but the displays showed lots of nice items usually available to purchase. When I asked at the upstairs bookshop whether any of them could be purchased, the answer was a disinterested 'no'. I don't really understand why any other reviewers have not been impressed but then maybe they're not that interested in heritage. Also anyone who thinks that £6.00 entrance fee is too much obviously doesn't visit many heritage sites.

i wanted to like this, but the experience left me a little empty. The building is large, but so much is empty space. The first few exhibits describing the local dig sites and discoveries are interesting, if not engaging. The rest of the museum can probably be skipped - most of it is thin in substance and very passive. Think pictures with descriptions and the occasional prop as opposed to anything interactive. Aside from the aforementioned local section, I don't think I learned anything new here.

When I entered this building I couldn't help but look up and feel a humility in terms of my complete insignifance and smallness in the great process of human evolution and so it is paradoxically when trying to understand the Origins of Man . Allows yourself time to really wonder and don't forget the bookshop on the very top floor. The audio is useful for the extra 3 euros but all discriptions are also in English. The exhibition of Atapuerca is fascinating and puts this museum in Burgos firmly on the Global stage for prehistoric archeological. To combine the findings of Atapuerca and the other exhibits which illustrate the evolucion and origins of Humans is fascinating.

This is an exceptional museum: housed in a contemporary, purpose built glass and steel edifice, it contains many of the fossils from the nearby archeological sites at the Sierra de Atapuerca. It offers a unique insight into the evolution of man, and one of the most impressive of the exhibits is the gallery of life size hominid sculptures. It is a truly world class centre - make sure you allow enough time to appreciate it!

This is an excellent museum. Really modern and well presented. Looks at the history and evolution of man from every conceivable angle. Particularly tells the story of the dramatic finds in caves near Buros. We got a bit exhausted with it all, but it is undoubtedly excellent.

This is a large building but the items are well spread out. It works very well and the layout is great and it's clear to understand. I think it would well work for children as well from primary age.

... and disappointing waste of money to build all that! Now, I will not talk about the architecture of the place and all that... I will leave that for someone who cares. But really, all that space WAS NOT NECESSARY AT ALL. All the more so, when you see what there's inside. And to add insult to injury, the size of the "Entrance" sign was inversely proportional in the extreme.I find it interesting to see what the anthro[a]pologists have to say about the origins of humans, and all that goes with our supposed ancestors, their life, their diet, etc., so I thought "Let's see what these guys' guesswork has produced".The ground floor is about the geological evolution of the area where the site is, how the caves were formed, how these "Homo spp." got to live there, and also about the history of the site in more recent days, the researchers, and how they do their work and find the pieces of the puzzle. So far so good. It seemed promising.The second floor is more about the evolution of our ancestors, and there are even replicas of the various genuses and species (natural size) so that you can have a better understanding of how they might have looked. Apparently good, but when I got to the descriptions, I found allegedly scientific statements, mixed with [intentionally?] unscientific words and expressions, particularly around diet and certain imagined behaviours that these very old "grandpa's" and "grannies" might have displayed, Not only that, they seemed to make it applicable to every "human" (or "pre-human", if you like) that would have existed back then. I don't blame the anthro[a]pologists there... I assume most of them do the same. Either they are so unaware of their own cultural conditioning that they are unable to see beyond it, or the ones who prepared the items in the museum think that the visitors are all gullible folk.The third floor is about fire and how it changed our lives. Interesting, maybe, but that doesn't justify another most bewildering waste of money to explain it, in a wraparound video contraption. Apart from that, like in the second floor, more purportedly scientific stuff mixed with nonsensical, non-scientific babble.The fourth floor... Well... They needed somewhere to put the "cafeteria" and the gift shop, so they used the remaining S P A C E to create a sort of cinema(?), in an [failed] attempt to teach something. Images, good. Sound, good. Idea, useless. The gift shop was, together with the ground floor, the most sensible part of the visit.To sum up:·Ground floor: good, even great. Promising.·Second floor: good, but... uh-oh...·Third floor: Next!!·Fourth floor: I think I need a book and a coffee.

This ultra modern building has only recently been completed. The Displays/Exhibits have been relly well put together with explanations in Englishas well as Spanish. Not to be missed

Huge, modern museum situated alongside the river. If you like history, anthropology this is a must see. only gripe would be the cost of admission.

this was way down my list - I don't really do natural history. Thought I'd pop in for an hour on my last afternoon - three hours later I got thrown out at closing time.

Very well done and interesting, this is at least a 2 hour trip if you actually pay attention and study what is going on. Not really for kiddos but for young teens and above it is well worth the visit which is as of this writing, free or you can do the headset tour which sots 3 Euros. I actually learned something!

This museum dedicated to the study of human evolution is located not too far from the Atapuerca site where very early hominid remains have been found. Here actual specimens are on display, and the life sized recreations of how our ancestors looked were amazing. There are tools from the most simple to the more sophisticated. Everything is well described also in English, which was much appreciated. The museum appears quite new and is very visitor friendly. If you want to see the real thing this museum has it. Also being on the pilgrimage route, pilgrims get a discount, but if your pilgrimage is only to learn about human origins it is well worth a visit

This new museum is evolving into a first-rate attraction. The building is superb and has been utilised in a creative and successful way. Visit if you have the chance to get to Burgos.

I feel bad giving this museum just three stars. I had such high hopes! It should have been wonderful! Some parts actually are fascinating, such as the (eerily dark) exhibits with the real remains found at the excavation site (the cranium dubbed Miguelón and the Pelvis Elvis--hilarious nickname, by the way).However, bones aside, I can't overlook one (very big) detail: the sheer SIZE of the darn thing! The building is hideous, ultra-modern, and it clashes with its surroundings. But what's worse is that once you step foot inside, you can feel the emptiness surrounding you. It's enough to make you want to bellow out "echo" and hear your voice slowly vanish into the void. Just another example of the government's money-splurging attitude, and as a Spanish resident this really disgusts me. The exhibits inside the MEH are not even close to justifying this architectural monster. Couple that with the two equally massive--and even emptier--buildings you can find at the Atapuerca dig sites, and the whole thing becomes utterly embarrassing.The entrance to the museum costs six euros. You can rent a guide tablet for 3 extra euros (we didn't get it). When we went, there was the usual exhibit and two temporary exhibits: bodies in wax and a photo collection. We began the tour by visiting the wax bodies exhibit. Okay. We then moved on to the real MEH: evolution. The young woman who checked our tickets harshly ordered us to follow the route ("okay, okay, don't shove"), so off we went. First stop: how the caves were formed. There are several large panels with way too much text, and then some models of cave formation without any text. It all felt imbalanced.After that...we kind of got lost in all the open empty space. There are some closed-off exhibits (like little buildings inside the building) which contain the real remains, so those are very interesting even though they're so dark we actually had trouble reading most of the panels.Upstairs there's a small replica of (part of) the Beagle and Darwin's home, and then we move on to a series of endless panels that you can slide around to make some images fit together, but it all falls terribly flat because there aren't any explanations. "Okay, so there's a single cell organism here, and another one there...now let me slide this panel a bit, and why is this one over there now? What's that coming out of it??? What does it all mean???" Frustrating.After surviving the panels, you reach a sort of plaza where there are model representations of the different human species found. Very well done, if you ask me. You can spend some time there staring at them while they stare back at you, since the next floor doesn't have much aside from a cafeteria , a book shop, and a few very basic videos of how humans created their first tools.All in all, too much space for so little contents. Some explanations were too over-the-top while others were missing in action. I was expecting more. Still, I would recommend the visit to anyone going to the archaeological site. We visited the museum the afternoon before we went to Atapuerca, so we were able to visualize many of the things the guide there told us (the cave formations, the different humans)--plus the only chance you have to see an actual fossil from Atapuerca is in this museum, so you might as well go pay Miguelón a visit.

We walk the Camino and the pilgrimage route runs right by the excavation site. When we found there was a museum of evolution in Burgos we decided to stay an extra day. The museum is in a new building located just outside the park area of the city. We received a discounted price by presenting our pilgrim passport, which was great. The museum traces the evolution of man from the most ancient times until the present. There are many exhibits including full re-creating's of man in various stages of evolution. These full-sized representations are amazing, They look like they could reach out and touch you. There are many displays of artifacts recovered from the excavation site, as well as a demonstration on how they recover these artifacts. If you are interested in archaeology at all I highly recommend that you visit this museum while in Burgos.