Casa das Artes
Municipal exhibition centre in a Rationalist building of 1939, which also houses the Fundación Laxeiro, the Colección Luis Torras and the Archivo Pacheco.
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About the museum
The building of the Casa das Artes was designed in the 1930s; the architect Romualdo de Madariaga signed the project in September 1938. It is a Rationalist construction that housed a branch of the Banco de España in Vigo from 1939 until the mid-1980s, when the bank closed its offices outside provincial capitals.
The Casa das Artes opened in 1990 as the main venue for the cultural programme of Vigo City Council. It is devoted mainly to temporary exhibitions of painting, sculpture and photography, and on subjects in science, history, ethnography and society; in 2007 it presented the first exhibition in Spain of Tamara de Lempicka.
The building brings together several collections: on the ground floor, the Archivo Fotográfico Pacheco, with some 140,000 photographs of Vigo from 1879 to 1970; on the second floor, the Colección Luis Torras, with works donated and deposited by this painter; and on the third floor, the Fundación Laxeiro, with the work of the painter José Otero Abeledo, “Laxeiro”, and exhibitions of contemporary artists.
Highlights
- Rationalist building of 1939, former branch of the Banco de España
- Fundación Laxeiro with the work of the painter Laxeiro
- Colección Luis Torras
- Archivo Fotográfico Pacheco with some 140,000 photographs of Vigo
- Municipal temporary exhibitions
Permanent exhibitions
- Colección Luis Torras – Municipal collection formed from the donations and deposits of the Vigo painter Luis Torras, installed on the second floor.
- Fundación Laxeiro – The third floor houses the work of the painter José Otero Abeledo, “Laxeiro”, and displays of contemporary artists.
- Founded
- 1990
- Operated by
- Ayuntamiento de Vigo
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