• Free for everyone on Saturdays from 2pm and Sunday mornings; kids under 18 are free any day with ID at the box office
• No scooters or tricycles inside, and the museum has nowhere to store them; bags over 40 x 40 cm go to the cloakroom
• Baby changing, a nursing room and strollers to borrow are available, and kids can't ride on shoulders in the galleries

Spain's national archaeology museum runs from prehistory to the Middle Ages across several floors. Kids head for the Egyptian rooms, with real mummies and painted coffins, and for Iberian stone sculptures like the Dama de Elche. Saturday family programs add theater, storytelling, the sounds of the ancient world and hands-on visit-workshops where kids try the trades of the past.