On the site where Madrid’s patron saint, San Isidro Labrador (St Isidro, the farm labourer) ended his days around 1172, this small museum is dedicated to the saint’s life.

The permanent exhibition, which presents a selection in the sample Origins of Madrid, the Madrid dedicated to the archeology and history of the city from prehistoric times to the transfer of the Court in 1561, by order of Philip II. Outstanding in the valuable collections all disappeared from the Archaeological Institute and the Municipal Museum, which summarizes more than one hundred years of archeology Madrid. Also in the store visited, shows a wider selection of parts, and the archaeobotanical garden, located next to the apse of the chapel of the bishop, collected l