The City Council of A Coruña (Galicia, Spain) has created a group of science-based museums, initiated in the mid-eighties. In 1985 the King and Queen of Spain opened the Science Museum (Casa de las Ciencias), an interactive centre aimed at bringing scientific developments closer to the people in an educational manner, using the latest techniques in handling and experimenting with the exhibits in order to arouse the visitor’s curiosity. The continuation of this project came in 1995, with the creation of the Domus, also known as the “Museum of Mankind”. The DOMUS is a museum entirely devoted to Mankind. It is a unique interactive centre in terms of its thematic specificity, the singularity of the building that hosts it, an original of the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, and the originality of the exhibits that are to be shown. This museum shares the same objectives as the Science Museum but is devoted specifically to discovering the nature of man as an individual and as a species and seen from various perspectives. In 1999 the Aquarium Finisterrae marked the culmination of this project and make the city of A Coruña a leader as regards the scientific-cultural centres existing in Spain. The aquarium aims to provide environmental education, centred on the marine ecosystems. The choice was most certainly not a coincidence, but the result of careful planning, based on a natural development. The shift has been from general science, the theme behind the first centre, towards the topic which has most firmly held man’s fascination: himself, and now, the move has been towards the setting in which he lives: the environment, on which his very survival depends. The three centres together constitute the Museos Científicos Coruñeses (http://mc2coruna.org/es)