Museo Hospital Resurrección
Former charity hospital of 1514 in Utrera, now a foundation and partial museum with a Baroque chapel, infirmary and historical archive.
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About the museum
The Hospital de la Santa Resurrección in Utrera is one of the oldest charitable institutions in Europe. Don Juan Ponce de León, born in Utrera in 1480, wished to found a hospital to care free of charge for the destitute of the comarca; he died young in 1505, and his mother, doña Catalina de Perea, fulfilled his last wish. A papal bull of Leo X in 1514 officially established the foundation, and on the death of doña Catalina in 1522 her will set out the charitable aims and the three lines of patrons that continue to this day.
For more than four hundred years hospital service was the building’s only function. In the 20th century a maternity unit (1944), the La Milagrosa school (1954) and a residence for the elderly were added. Since 1996 it has been a foundation registered in the Andalusian Register of Foundations, which keeps charity as its main purpose alongside cultural work and the conservation of its heritage.
In 2022 the foundation turned part of the site into a museum and opened the hospital to visits. The guided route passes through the 17th-century chapel, the sacristy and archive, the 18th-century infirmary, the refectory turned into a gallery of portraits of the patrons, the brotherhood room, the boardroom, the López de Carrizosa archive and the Santa Catalina viewpoint.
Highlights
- Baroque chapel of 1694 with the tomb of Lope Ponce de León and the Resurrection altarpiece
- 18th-century infirmary presided over by the Cristo de la Disciplina
- Historical archive with Leo X’s founding bull of 1514
- Gallery of portraits of the patrons in the former refectory
- Santa Catalina viewpoint
- Guided visits by day and by night
Permanent exhibition
- Recorrido por el hospital y su museo – Guided visit through nine spaces: chapel, sacristy and archive, infirmary, refectory, brotherhood room, historical archive, boardroom, López de Carrizosa archive and the Santa Catalina viewpoint.
- Founded
- 2022
- Operated by
- Fundación Hospital de la Santa Resurrección de Utrera
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €10 |
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| Reduced | €4Residents of Utrera |
| Children & teens | €4School group visit: €4 per person, with advance booking. |
| Groups (5+ people) | €10 per personGuided visit for groups with advance booking. |
| Guided visit with brunch | €15Minimum 8 people, with advance booking; includes coffee and a brunch of typical products of Utrera (about 120 minutes). |
| Dramatised visit | €20Minimum 8 people, with advance booking (about 90 minutes). |
| Guided visit to Utrera’s religious monuments | €15Minimum 8 people, with advance booking; includes the Santuario de Consolación, the Iglesia de Santiago and the Convento de Carmelitas (Carmelite convent) (about 3 hours). |
Individual visit and themed and mass visits: €10 (residents of Utrera, €4). Evening visit: €10 (residents, €4).
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes · approx. 1.5 hrs |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Admission is always by guided visit, lasting about 80 to 90 minutes, with booking through the museum’s website (visitas@museohospitalresurreccion.com, tel. 682 80 93 65). Themed and mass visits take place on occasional dates, which are announced each month. |
