The strangest museums in Madrid

Madrid is a city that counts with first-level museums that are well-known in the whole world: The Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Natural Science museum, the Railway museum… However there’s also darker museums in Madrid, that range between the anecdotic  and the surprising. Today we’re going to tell you about the strangest museums in Madrid.

The strangest museums in Madrid

When we use the word strange we’re saying it doesn’t have value or that it’s not significant. In fact, the museums we’re going to tell you about in Madrid have a great attractive for one reason or the other.

Lunar Museum

In Fresnedilla de la Oliva you can find this museum that serves as a space interpretation centre. It has several miniatures, rocket copies, space models, photos and suits and objects that once belonged to Neil Armstrong.

Historical House Museum of El Ratoncito Pérez

Spanish tradition says that when a child looses a tooth, a noble and amusing little mouse named Pérez, leaves bellow the pillow a small gift in exchange for that fallen tooth.

In the number 8 of Arenal street you can find a museum that’s fully dedicated to this character. In addition to objects, you can find things like Isac Newton’s milk tooth.

The enchanted forest

The Enchanted Forest is located in San Martín de Valdeiglesias. Without being a museum per se, you can discover several hundred sculptures made from trees, bushes or plants. Really something different.

America’s Museum

In Moncloa, it’s not so different as the previous ones, but a visit should be considered in a second visit to Madrid (after having seen the Prado or the Science Museum…) It has a wide variety of object regarding America’s colonization.

Ski Museum

It’s funny that a country with so few sport achievements in this field has a fully dedicated museum to this sport. The Ski museum is located in Cercedilla, and it counts with unique pieces, the majority of them belonging to Francisco Fernández Ochoa, the sole Spaniard to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympic games.