Isabel Clarisa Millán García

Isabel Clarisa Millan Garcia (18 February 1910-14 June 1990) was a Spanish archaeologist and museum curator from Madrid, Spain. She was born in Calatayud, Spain and died in Madrid, where she attended college and spent much of her career.

Education and work

Education Isabel Garcia attended college in Madrid, Spain at Universidad Central (Universidad de Madrid), which is since renamed Complutense University of Madrid. She graduated in 1936 with a degree in Philosophy and Letters.

Work Garcia spent most of her career at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid (1941-1978.)

In 1940, Garcia worked with Santa-Olalla at the GCAE as a technical collaborator. In 1941, she began working for the National Archaeological Museum (MAN). That same year she briefly worked as a director for the Archaeological Museum of Soria, now renamed the Numantine Museum of Soria, before transferring back to the MAN in 1942.

Garcia never married, which was common for many female archaeologists and other University educated women during the period after the Spanish Civil War.

Garcia was part of the Universidad Cruise through the Mediterranean on Ciudad de Cádiz, organized by the Spanish government. The excavation was a 48-day archaeological tour through the Mediterranean that took place through June and July in 1933. They visited Tunisia, Malta, Egypt, Palestine, Jerusalem, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Mallorca. During her time on the cruise, she wrote letters to her family and documented the trip through her writing.

During her time at the MAN, Garcia was also involved in international conventions including the Protohistory in Florence in 1950, the Numismatics in Rome in 1961, and the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Moscow in 1964.

In 1977, she was recognized in a museum merit contest.