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Cardenete Mushroom Museum

Cardenete's Museo Micológico occupies an old cave and explores mushrooms and fungi in several rooms, including microscopy and scent rooms. It is run by the El Valle association. Visits require prior request and confirmation, take around half an hour to an hour, and offer ramp access, braille content and audio guides.

Aerial view of the road, the houses and the slope where the Cardenete Mushroom Museum stands
The surroundings of the Mushroom Museum, from the air in 2024. Photo: «Ortoimagen», Sistema Cartográfico Nacional (2024) · CC BY 4.0
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Cardenete
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A museum underground

The Museo Micológico in Cardenete occupies an old cave on Travesía de las Cuevas. Run by the El Valle mycological association, it explains fungi, the forest and the village’s mushroom culture. It has a microscopy room and another devoted to mushroom scents.

Plan your visit

Visits are by appointment, which must be requested and then confirmed. A contribution of €1 is requested, and the visit lasts between half an hour and an hour. There is a ramp, braille text and audio guides.

Before you travel

If you then go into the hills for mushrooms: you need to know when and where, and anything you do not recognise must not be uprooted, trodden on or picked. The museum is a good place to learn to look first.

Combine with

The Museo Etnográfico and the former flour factory.

Frequently asked questions

How can the Museo Micológico be visited?

By prior request and confirmation. Visits last between 30 minutes and an hour, with a requested contribution of €1. The address is Travesía de las Cuevas, Cardenete.

What is inside?

Rooms about fungi, forest ecosystems and local mushroom culture, including microscopy and mushroom scents. There is a ramp, braille content and audio guides.

Carry on from here

Lands and landscapes

From here, follow the memory of the land

These readings connect Cardenete Mushroom Museum with the stories, the work and the villages around it.

Where it is

Location of Cardenete Mushroom Museum Almodóvar del PinarArguisuelasBonichesCampillo de AltobueyCampillos-ParavientosCañada del HoyoCarboneras de GuadazaónCardeneteEnguídanosFuentelespino de MoyaFuentesGabaldónHenarejosMiraMonteagudo de las SalinasNarbonetaPajarónPajaroncilloParacuellosReílloSan Martín de BonichesSolera de GabaldónVillar del HumoVílloraYémeda PR-CU 50: Sendero de la hoz del Agua y hoz CerradaPR-CU 51: Sendero de las FuentesPR-CU 53: Sendero de Las ChorrerasPR-CU 55: Vuelta a Cabeza de VílloraPR-CU 66: El Rodenal de BonichesPR-CU 87: Sendero de la Cañada Real de los ChorrosPR-CU 88: Sendero de la Colada del Barranco de la PalancosaSL-CU 7: Paseo fluvial del río Vencherque Cardenete
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