The first Temporary exhibition of 2024 is entitled Magic and women in the Classical World and has been coordinated by Rosario López Gregoris, professor of Classical Philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM, Spain), and has had the participation of 18 researchers from five Spanish and international universities. This exhibition aims to show the association between magic and women in the Greco-Roman World and, above all, it aims to point out the ways in which magic and everyday life are linked (love, illness, animals, herbs, etc.), so that magic, in the broad sense, becomes a particularly useful problem-solving strategy for ordinary and vulnerable people. It is also interesting to note that the divine sphere, through some goddesses, auspicious and in some cases beneficent magic.

The second temporary exhibition of 2024 is entitled Toys and the traditional games in the Province of Guadalajara (Spain) and shows a representative part of the games that were traditionally played in this Castilian province. Its simplicity, both in manufacture and in construction materials or durability, defines well the popular culture of this province and its people. This exhibition has been coordinated by Miguel Ángel Fernández Auñón, Coordinating Administrator of the Provincial School of Folklore of Guadalajara. Created in 1984 with the aim of studying and recovering the customs and traditions of the province of Guadalajara, this Exhibition is a contribution to the commemorative activities of its 40th anniversary.

The third Temporary exhibition of the year is entitled A centenary for the midwives of Santa Cristina and has been prepared by Dolores Ruiz Berdún, professor of History of Science at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). 2024 marks the centenary of the inauguration of the Casa de Salud de Santa Cristina (Santa Cristina Health Centre) in Madrid, a hospital for the health care of women, whether rich or poor, and for the theoretical-practical training of midwives. This Exhibition looks at some aspects of the teaching activity of this institution focused on the training of midwives, the most emblematic center for the training of midwives during most of the twentieth century. However, coinciding with this commemoration, the profession of midwife is at serious risk in Spain. Being a universal and essential figure in human societies, with this Exhibition we also want to celebrate that the knowledge, techniques and practices of midwifery have been inscribed in 2023 by UNESCO on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.