Archaeological Museum of Biscay (Bilbao)

This guide to the Archaeological Museum of Biscay in Bilbao begins with the building's original purpose beside the Mallona steps: a small railway station whose business was death, holding a funeral chapel where the city's dead waited before a short rail line carried their coffins out to a newer cemetery. It sets that history against the industrial boom crowding Bilbao's valley below, and against what the building holds today, stone tools, Roman coins and medieval grave markers gathered from digs across the province.