The Espai Mammuthus in La Canonja is an ideal museum proposal for a family visit, perfect for a stay or getaway to the city of Tarragona.
In fact, its exhibition explores human and faunal evolution, combining digital elements with physical interaction featuring highly realistic representations of hominids, fossils, and minerals.
A million years ago in La Canonja, the world was very different from today. Our ancestors shared the territory that is now Tarragona and the Costa Daurada with large mammals that have now disappeared.Thanks to their stone tools, they obtained shelter and food, and made the most of the resources the environment offered them.
Mammoth and Prehistory Museum in Tarragona
At the new mammoth museum, you’ll discover what this place was like before and the beings that inhabited it. Thus, you’ll learn who these humans were, how they made their tools, and to what extent they resembled us now; and how science has allowed us to gain this knowledge from the evidence found at the Barranc de la Boella site.
✅ Large format mammoth.
✅ Life-size hominids.
✅ Fossils of prehistoric animals.
✅ Representations of prehistoric fauna.
✅ Lithic industry sets (stone tools).
✅ Information about the Barranc de la Boella site.
✅ Interactive digital screens.
Certainly, the excavations carried out by IPHES since 2007 have reinforced the scientific and heritage importance of Barranc de la Boella.
Fossils of numerous mammal species and a very well-preserved set of lithic industry have been identified there, notably including large tools.
In addition to the exhibition, Espai Mammuthus features an outdoor area offering scheduled family workshops: Rastres i petjades! (Tracks and Footprints!), ideal for children aged 3 to 6 to play fossil detective, and Grafiters del Plistocè! (Pleistocene Graffiti Artist!), designed for ages 6 to 12 to make their own prehistoric spray paint using mineral pigments. A perfect interactive complement to the visit.”
From TGNA Tarragona Apartaments, we encourage you to consider this new museum space during your visit to the Costa Daurada and to stay in one of our apartment buildings in the center of Tarragona.
