Museo de Málaga facts for kids
The Museo de Málaga is a really cool museum in Málaga, a city in Andalusia, Spain. It first opened its doors to the public in December 2016. This museum is super big! It's the largest museum in Andalusia and the fifth largest in all of Spain. It was created in 1973 by combining two older museums: the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts (started in 1913) and the Provincial Archeological Museum (started in 1947). Even today, the museum still has these two main parts, like two big collections under one roof. The Fine Arts part has over 2,000 amazing artworks, and the Archeology part has more than 15,000 ancient items!
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Exploring the Fine Arts Collection
The Fine Arts part of the museum began a long time ago, in 1913. The government wanted to create art museums in cities that didn't have them yet. Málaga's art academy, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo, really wanted a museum too. So, the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts officially started on February 3, 1915. It first opened in a temporary spot in 1916.
A Journey Through Different Homes
Over the years, the Fine Arts collection moved several times. In 1920, it moved to a former Jesuit college. Later, in 1961, it found a home in the beautiful Buenavista Palace. However, it had to leave that palace in 1997. This was because the government bought the palace to turn it into the Museo Picasso Málaga, a museum dedicated to the famous artist Pablo Picasso. After that, the Fine Arts collection moved to the Palacio de la Aduana. This is where the museum is located today.
Famous Artists and Their Works
The museum has incredible artworks by many famous artists. You can see paintings by Luis de Morales, Luca Giordano, and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. There are also works by Antonio del Castillo, Alonso Cano, and Pedro de Mena. Other important artists include Jusepe de Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Diego Velázquez. You can also find art from Francisco de Goya, Federico de Madrazo, and Ramón Casas. More modern artists like José Moreno Carbonero, Enrique Simonet, Joaquín Sorolla, Léon Bonnat, Franz Marc, and even Pablo Picasso are featured.
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The martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, circa 1641.
(attributed to Jusepe de Ribera)
Discovering the Archeological Collection
The Archeological part of the museum started in 1947. Archeology is the study of human history and prehistory through digging up old sites and analyzing artifacts. This section brought together two important collections. One was from the old Museo Loringiano, which had many ancient items collected in the 1800s. The other part came from archeological digs that had been happening in the Málaga area since the 1930s.
Ancient Finds and Their Homes
Many of these ancient finds came from places like the Alcazaba of Málaga. The new Archeological Museum first opened in the Alcazaba in 1949. But in 1996, the Alcazaba needed some repairs, so the collection had to move again. It was temporarily kept in an old 16th-century building called the Convento de la Trinidad until 1999. After that, it moved to the Avenida de Europa. This building was once a historical archive and is now shared with the State Public Library. Before the main museum opened, some of these ancient treasures were shown in temporary exhibits at the Palacio de la Aduana.
See also
- List of museums in Málaga
- List of museums in Spain
