The Inocencio Bocanegra Radio Communication Museum in Belorado (Burgos) features a time capsule in the form of an ‘Escape Room’ that takes visitors on a trip back to the most important periods in 20th-century history.
Time travel is possible in this province in Burgos. You can climb aboard the Titanic itself, walk through a World War I trench and visit the most famous border post along the Berlin Wall—Checkpoint Charlie. All this can be found at the Inocencio Bocanegra Radio Communication Museum, located in the town of Belorado in Burgos.
At the foot of the Sierra de la Demanda mountain range, this museum is the only one of its kind in Spain. It houses one of the largest collections of radio communication equipment from the 20th century, and now has a new type of exhibit: a 20th century time capsule, designed as an educational ‘Escape Room’. The exhibit highlights the museum’s resources while offering a fun and alternative way to learn about the past.
Inside the Escape Room, participants are divided into groups and have to work as a team to achieve particular objectives. Over approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, museum visitors travel back to some of the most significant landmarks in contemporary history via the different exhibition spaces in the museum. In addition to learning about the 20th century and getting to know some of the most important episodes of our recent past first-hand, visitors will have to work together, divide up tasks and pay attention to tiny details.
Going beyond history in Belorado
Not far from the museum, to the south of Belorado, is another space capable of taking visitors back in time: the Puras de Villafranca Mining Complex. The oldest manganese mine in Spain allows visitors to enjoy an authentic 19th-century mining experience, discovering the daily tasks of the miners, the tools they used, and how the extracted minerals were used.
As if that wasn’t enough, the mine is located in the incomparable setting of the Sierra de la Demanda, a mountain range full of life and history that is a haven for nature and art, with a great variety of landscapes and habitats in a magnificent state of conservation. From beautiful forests and glacial-formed lagoons to dinosaur footprints and fossil trees, not to mention Romanesque porticoes and cemeteries, it is a land of hidden treasures waiting to be discovered.
