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INTRODUCTION

Valltorta Museum is the only rock art museum in the region of Valencia. The paintings are in the open air but the permanent exhibition in the museum rooms also provides a very interesting tour of prehistoric rock art in the Valencian region.

To visit the permanent exhibition no guide is required. Guided tours are available for groups.

Visits to caves are with a guide.

L'arquer de la Valltorta. Pieza Original. Cedido en comodato por la Paeria de Cervera (Lleida).

100 Años de Arte Rupestre

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PERMANENT EXHIBITION

Valltorta Museum has a permanent exhibition of pre-historic art in chronological order from the earliest to the most modern forms.

Valltorta Museum has a permanent exhibition of pre-historic art in chronological order from the earliest to the most modern forms.

ROOM I

Art by hunters and gatherers from the Palaeolithic Age. Calcareous platelets from Cova del Parpalló (Gandia) and Tossal de la Roca (La Vall d'Alcalà) with zoomorphic motifs and complex, non-figurative signs. There is also a large image of the En Melià rock shelter (La Serra d'en Galceran), with many etchings of animals from the later Palaeolithic art period.

ROOM II

ROOM II 

Art from the Mesolithic and Neolithic ages (farming and animal-rearing) with examples of Levantine and Macroschematic images, including two pieces of rock hewn out of the Cavalls and Civil caves that were fortunately recovered by the authorities. The replica of the painting in Centelles cave (Albocàsser) showing a group of people walking is also worth seeing and is probably the most extraordinary example of the earliest Levantine art in the Valltorta area.

ROOM III

ROOM III 

A replica of Cavalls cave showing what the site looked like when it was discovered and the different phases of painting recorded there..

ROOM IV

Sala IV

Examples of the latest prehistoric art from the Copper and Bronze ages. Schematic art, petroglyphs and examples of art from historic times, essentially Iberian.

ROOM V

ROOM V 

This room focuses on the Unesco declaration of Levantine art as world heritage, and the impact this has had on the conservation and awareness of prehistoric art in the Valencia region.

ROOM VI

ROOM VI 

Photographs of the first researchers to visit Valltorta in 1917. The decisive contribution of leading figures such as Henri Breuil, Hugo Obermaier, Juan Cabré, Pere Bosch Gimpera and Joan Baptista Porcar enabled Levantine rock art to obtain the global recognition it deserves