A list of Museums and Art Galleries in the Spain
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A list of Museums and Art Galleries in Castile and León
Castile and León - Museums and Art Galleries in Castile and León, including non-profit art centers and galleries, government entities, and private businesses.
NAME | LOCATION | TELEPHONE & WEBSITE | SUMMARY |
Casa Lis | Calle Gibraltar, 14, 37008 Salamanca | Telephone: +34 923121425 museocasalis.org |
The Casa Lis is a museum located in the ancient city wall of Salamanca, Spain. Also known as Museo Art Nouveau and Art Déco, it is a museum of decorative arts, with exhibits dating from the last decades of the 19th century to World War II. |
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León | Av. de los Reyes Leoneses, 24, 24008 León | Telephone: +34 987090000 http://musac.es/ |
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, better known as the MUSAC, is a contemporary art museum in the city of León, Spain. The museum has won international prestige for its 21st-century collection and innovative programming, being labelled, for example, as "one of the most astonishingly bold museums to hit the Spanish cultural landscape in years" by The New York Times |
Museum of Jewellery in the Silver Way, in La Bañeza, León | Calle Juan Mansilla, 10, 24750 La Bañeza, León | Telephone: +34 987655192 www.museoalhajas.es |
The Museum of Jewellery in the Silver Way (Alhajas en la Vía de la Plata in Spanish) is located in the center of La Bañeza (León), close to Plaza Mayor, in a modernist building of the beginning of the 20th century, best known as the 'Casa de doña Josefina'. Its creation is the result of an agreement signed between the Carvajal-Cavero family, owner of the collection, and the Town Hall of La Bañeza. This collection, assembled during more than four decades, is composed of over 3,000 pieces of jewellery (from the 16th to the 18th century) and traditional Spanish clothing (19th century), especially of the Silver Way and the Province of León. |
National Sculpture Museum (Valladolid) | Calle Cadenas de San Gregorio, 1, 47011 Valladolid | Telephone: +34 983250375 http://www.mecd.gob.es/ |
The museum has an extensive collection sculptural ranging from the Middle Ages to the 19th century from Region of Castile's churchs that, at 19th-20th c., these were confiscated, and other particular donations, deposits or acquisitions of the state. The museum was founded as the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts on 4 October 1842. The museum houses works from the 13th to 19th centuries, executed mostly in the Central Spain, and also in other regions historically connected to Spain (Italy, Flanders, Southern America). Artworks include, among the others, a Raising of the Cross by Francisco del Rincon, I Thirst, and The Way of Calvary Gregorio Fernández, Adoration of the Magi by Alonso Berruguete, Lamentation of Christ by Juan de Juni, Penitent Magdalene by Pedro de Mena or the Holy Sepulchre or passage of the Sleepers Alonso de Rozas. |
Numantine Museum of Soria | Paseo el Espolón, 8, 42001 Soria | Telephone: +34 975221397 - |
The Numantine Museum of Soria located in Soria, Spain, focuses on the history of the province of Soria through art and archaeology. It has material from Numantia, a site which is a few kilometres from Soria, and also covers other archaeological sites such as Tiermes and Uxama. |