Opening hours

Annual calendar of special closures and openings

• January 1 New Year: Closed
• 5 January Twelfth Night: Open from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• January 6 Three Kings Day: Closed
• March 19 Father's Day: open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• March 28 Holy Thursday: open from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• March 29 Good Friday: open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• 1 April Easter Monday: closed
• April 8 Monday of San Vicente Ferrer: closed
• May 1: Closed
• June 24 San Juan: open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• August 15 Assumption Day: open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• October 9 Valencian Community Day: open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• October 12 National Holiday of Spain: open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• November 1: Open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• December 6 Constitution Day: Open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• December 8 The Immaculate Conception: Open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• December 24 Christmas Eve: open from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• December 25 Christmas: Closed
• December 29 Coming of the Virgin: Open from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
• December 31 New Year's Eve: open from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Entrance fees

How to get

Partida de Puçol, 8
03296 - Elche - Alicante (España)

Public transport

Bus line 5 Elx-Algorós-Matola
Opening hours

(*) Stops in Pla de Sant Josep
No service on Sundays

GPS coordinates

38º12'46.3''N
0º43'58.0''W

Itineraries

1. Traditional rural home
   1. Kitchen
   2. Dining room
   3. Bedroom
2. Elche trades and industry
   1. Palm tree
   2. Thresher
   3. Plough
   4. Wine
   5. Oil
   6. Lumberman
   7. Foreman
   8. Hemp and espadrille maker
   9. Doctor's surgery
   10. School
3. Temporary exhibition
   1. Cinema
   2. Transport
4. City and Shops
   1. Bar Comercio
   2. Grocery store
   3. Barbería Picazo (Barber's)
   4. Kiosko Rico (Kiosk)
   5. Monferval
   6. Zapatero Remendón (Shoe shop)
   7. Almacenes Parreño and Confecciones Rico (toy stores)
   8. Telas Brotons (Textils)
   9. Imprenta Viuda de Monserrate (printing press)
   10. Droguería Pérez Seguí (drugstore)
   11. Estudio Fotográfico Esquembre (photographer)
   12. Confecciones Beltrán and Sombrerería Campello (clothes shop and milliner)
   13. La Calahorra: the story of the Ibarra family

Exterior route

1. Interior patio and Garden: local plants and flowers, and other countryside items (furnace, vegetable patch, well, pigsty...).
2. Vegetable garden: divider, irrigation ditch, palm grove irrigation and water distribution system..

It takes around 60 minutes to follow the route inside and outside the museum facilities.

Accessibility and Services

Accessibility

The Museo Escolar de Puçol has eliminated architectural barriers to create an accessible space for people with reduced mobility that use wheelchairs. The whole collection is on display on one floor, and there are no stairs to get in the way of wheelchairs. The centre has also adapted lavatory facilities.

Services

Warehouses open to the public

Public parking

Rest area

Library

Suggestion box

Air conditioning

Garden/kitchen garden

Food and drink vending machine

Lost property

Information service

Restoration workshop

Store / Bookshop / Point of sale

Recommendations

We want to provide a respectful environment, suitable for all visitors, and to protect the items on display. Visitors are therefore asked to behave correctly.

For safety reasons, no food, drinks, backpacks, travel or sports bags, suitcases, or items that might damage the collection, such as umbrellas and ‘selfie sticks’, may be taken into the exhibition. Pets are not allowed on the premises, with the exception of guide dogs.

Touching the exhibits is prohibited.

In compliance with Law 42/2010, Article 7 of 30 December 2010, smoking is not permitted in any part of the Museum or its outdoor areas.

Kindly silence your mobile phone and other devices to avoid disturbing other users.

The museum allows visitors to photograph the collection. However, you may not photograph materials on display in the warehouse, restoration workshop or library.

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