Museo de Ávila

Om museet

The Museo de Ávila arose from the Commission of Monuments of the province, responsible for protecting its historic and artistic heritage, and opened in 1911 in the building of the Biblioteca y Museo Teresianos (Teresian Library and Museum). For decades its holdings moved between different premises, including the Alcázar, the Arco de San Vicente, the cathedral cloister and the chapel of Las Nieves, and there were periods when they remained packed up. In 1968 it acquired its own identity as the Provincial Museum, with its own pieces, building, budget and staff, and it reopened in 1971. It was remodelled in 1986; from 1987 it has been run by the Junta de Castilla y León, and in 1998 it opened its Almacén Visitable (Visitable Store) in the church of Santo Tomé el Viejo.

The main seat is the Casa de los Deanes, a 16th-century Renaissance palace where the deans of the cathedral lived. It has a square plan around a central courtyard, a two-storey façade with columns attached to the wall in the manner of an Italian gallery, and brick arches on granite columns in the courtyard; the coat of arms of the cathedral chapter appears in both places. The Visitable Store occupies the former Romanesque church of Santo Tomé, built in the 12th century, which in the 20th century served as a garage before the State recovered it in 1964.

The collection brings together the material culture of the province from donations, contributions from other institutions and archaeological finds. Notable are the Fondo Antiguo of the Commission of Monuments, the collections of Federico García and Fulgencio Serrano, the pieces gathered by Arsenio Gutiérrez Palacios and Antonio Molinero, and the lot of the Marquis of Benavites, acquired by the Provincial Council as the founding basis of the museum. The museum is state-owned and regionally managed.

Højdepunkter

• Casa de los Deanes, a 16th-century Renaissance palace with a courtyard of brick arches
• Section on the traditional culture of the Ávila region
• History of the province from prehistory to the 19th century
• Visitable Store with lapidary and large pieces in the church of Santo Tomé el Viejo
• Flemish painting, ceramics, furniture and arms in the fine arts section

Permanente udstillinger

• Exposición permanente de la Casa de los Deanes – The rooms occupy most of the Casa de los Deanes in three sections: the traditional culture of the Ávila region, the history of the province from prehistory to the 19th century, and the city of Ávila, with finds from urban excavations.
• Almacén Visitable de Santo Tomé el Viejo – Exhibition space in the former Romanesque church of Santo Tomé, with the lapidary and the collection's large pieces.

Grundlagt

1911

Ejer

Junta de Castilla y León (gestión); titularidad estatal

Ledelse

Javier Jiménez Gadea

Entrépriser & rabatter

Gratis entré: Saturdays, Sundays and national or regional public holidays, as well as 23 April, 9 May, 18 May, 12 October and 6 December, for the whole of the opening hours.

Admission to the permanent exhibition costs €1. Free admission, with accreditation, also applies to unemployed people, teaching staff, tour guides of Castilla y León, holders of the youth card (carné joven) or its international equivalent, volunteers, ICOM members and friends of the museum, among other groups. The same free-admission conditions apply to legal residents of the European Union.

Tilgængelighed

Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette.

Børn og familie

The museum runs workshops, such as the “Taller sorpresa de verano” (summer surprise workshop), as part of its educational programme.

Transport & parkering

The museum is in the Plaza de Nalvillos, where the Casa de los Deanes and the church of Santo Tomé el Viejo form a cultural complex.

Service & spisesteder

Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette.

Arrangementer & udlejning

Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette.

Planlæg dit besøg