Gibraltar National Museum

Established in 1930 by the then Governor of Gibraltar, General Sir Alexander Godley, the Gibraltar National Museum houses an array of displays portraying the Rock's millennia-old history and the unique culture of its people. The museum also incorporates the remains of a 14th-century Moorish bath house adjacent to its main exhibition building.

Though its importance was not realised at the time, the presentation of a fossil skull found at Forbes’s Quarry marked the first stop in the story of Neanderthals on the rock. This skull (The Gibraltar Skull or Gibraltar 1) presented on 3rd March 1848, was later found to have been of the same type as the one found in the Neander Valley in Germany in 1856. Today our only UNESCO World Heritage site is Gorham's Cave, dedicated to learning more about the Neanderthal man.

The site isn't just about Neanderthals, though; It also houses an open-air archaeological exhibit of an excavation spanning seven centuries of Gibraltar’s history. Fourteenth-century well; sixteenth-century cistern and nineteenth-century water channels. Along with the aforementioned remains of Moorish Baths.

It is also home to a horse-drawn carriage of Maltese tradition, used in the 19th and 20th Centuries in Gibraltar, artefacts from the Great Siege and various other pieces from throughout our history.