MORERA. Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Lleida

Om museet

In 1914 the Diputació and the Lleida City Council promoted the creation of the Museu d'Art de Lleida, which opened in 1917 with works by the Diputació’s grant holders, deposits from the Museo de Arte Moderno in Madrid and donations from the painter Jaume Morera i Galícia. When Morera donated works by Carlos de Haes in 1924, the museum was renamed Museu d'Art Jaume Morera. In this first phase it was housed in the Sant Lluís market and in the former Hospital de Santa Maria.

The Civil War was a turning point: for almost forty years the museum was practically inactive and its collections were dispersed. It reopened in the Hospital de Santa Maria between 1959 and 1969 and in 1975 moved to the former convent of the Roser. In the 1980s it re-emerged as an institution, and since 1993 it has been owned exclusively by the municipality.

In 2007 it moved, initially on a provisional basis, to the former Casino Principal building on calle Major. In 2016 the first steps were taken to set up its permanent home in the Antiga Audiència building at Rambla de Ferran, 13, whose rehabilitation began in 2019. During the works the museum renewed its image, adopted the popular name MORERA with the description Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Lleida, and created the Constel·lacions platform to consult the collection.

In 2024 the new headquarters opened, with a collection of more than 5,000 pieces, as a centre for the conservation, research and dissemination of 20th- and 21st-century art from Lleida.

Højdepunkter

• Collection of more than 5,000 works of 20th- and 21st-century art from Lleida
• Exhibition of about 450 works in a chronological route from 1900 to the present
• Works by Jaume Morera, Leandre Cristòfol, Palmira Puig, Rosa Siré and Antoni Abad, among others
• Visitable reserve room where the works are kept and restored
• Terrace-viewpoint on the fifth floor of the former Audiència building

Permanent udstilling

• Arrels i horitzons. Més d'un segle d'art – Chronological route through about 450 works from the collection, from the late 19th century to today, in rooms 2 and 3: Lleida 1900, times of conflict, the long post-war period, transitions and contemporary artistic practices.

Grundlagt

1914

Ejer

Ayuntamiento de Lleida (Paeria)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Gratis entré: The first Tuesday of each month, 11 and 18 May, the Night of the Museums, and 11 and 29 September.

Free admission all year round for the MORERA Community. Also free for journalists with a press card, holders of the ICOM card and of the Associació de Museòlegs de Catalunya card, Generalitat teachers, official Generalitat guides, copyist painters while working, and unemployed people.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

The main entrance (Rambla de Ferran, 13) has two steps; people with reduced mobility and pushchairs are advised to use the accessible entrance on the calle Baixada de l'Audiència. All floors are reached by stairs or lift, with Braille keypads and audible announcements. Adapted information desk, induction loop, tactile routes and a haptic plan. Inclusive, accessible toilets with a changing table, signed in ink and Braille. Loan of portable folding chairs and audioguides. Parking spaces for people with reduced mobility on Rambla de Ferran, 40, calle Maria Sauret, 4 and Plaza Pare Sanahuja, 25.

Børn og familie

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Barnevognsvenlig
• Puslerum

Guided and activity-based visits and workshops for the general public and schools. Pushchairs use the accessible entrance on the calle Baixada de l'Audiència. Under-16s enter free.

Transport & parkering

Bicycle and e-scooter parking on the calle Baixada de l'Audiència and on the Rambla de Ferran.

Service & spisesteder

• Museumsbutik
• Opbevaringsskabe

Shop on the ground floor. Cloakrooms at various heights, with the medium-height ones reserved for wheelchair users. Rest areas and a terrace-viewpoint.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje

Spaces of the museum can be booked, such as the classroom, the multipurpose room and the fifth-floor terrace, through an online procedure of the City Council.

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