This museum is part of the Centro Cultural de la Beneficencia. The cultural centre has permanent exhibition halls in which you can learn about the evolution of rural, traditional Valencian society's way of life. It also has temporary exhibitions on various ethnological themes. There is a specialized library, open to the public, which deals with ethnological and anthropological subjects, and the archives that accompany them. Apart from the cultural centre's activities (exhibitions, concerts, conferences), the visitor can participate in and make use of various didactic workshops and sound, photo and video libraries.
In the popular Monteolivete neighborhood you will find tMuseo Fallero installed in an old hospice next to the Creueta de la Mare de Deu de Monteolivet (The Small Cross of the Mother of God). In 1834 this building was converted into a military barracks and later on a military jail. Today it houses the collection of Ninots, the satirical images of people and events burned every year during the Fallas festival. These obviously have not been burned, but are the ones saved from the flames by popular demand every year since 1934. You will also find a good collection of posters and photos related to the Fallas festival on display.
In this museum, history is about much more than battles, dates, and potentates. Hidden under the dust of time there is a universe of unknown dates of seemingly trivial, but nonetheless revealing episodes. The museum aims to tell history through the lens of the quotidian. The permanent exhibition covers epochs from 138 BC - the present.
Casa Museo de Blasco Ibáñez the house of the Valencian writer, Blasco Ibáñez, is situated on the Paseo Marítimo near Malvarrosa beach. It was recently renovated and is a fine example of the Valencian bourgeois architecture of the past century. The building is well-known for the caryatids which adorn the front of the house. You can visit the writer's study which includes furniture from Ibáñez's time and a display of various editions of his novels and photography. This house has a marvelous view of the beach, painted so many times by Joaquín Sorolla, a personal friend of the writer's.