I was told that if I only went to one museum in Madrid, I should go to the Museo Geominero, Spain’s geological museum, founded as a result of its Comisión para formar la carta geológica de Madrid y la general del Reino.
It preserves in a very pure form the idea of a museum as an instrument of scientific classification and knowledge:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
I love this sort of Museum. The last one I was in of this sort was the late 19th-C. Silk Museum in Tbilisi. They didn’t have the budget of the Museo Geominero, it was a wonderful decaying, fascinating place.
Yes, it’s on my list…