Museo Fallero de Valencia

This guide to the Museo Fallero de Valencia opens in 1934, when sculptor Regino Mas asked judges for a pardon, not for a person but for a papier-mache doll marked to burn in Valencia's Fallas festival. It follows the origin of the indulto, the public vote that spares one ninot a year from the flames, and the building's earlier life as a mission house before becoming a museum in 1971. Walk the galleries holding decades of pardoned figures, from satirical politicians to children's favorites saved since the 1960s.