Museo de la provincia Bética de los carmelitas

About the museum

The Carmelite provincial museum of sacred art was inaugurated on 13 April 1980, although it did not open to the public until 2018. It stands next to the Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Carmen Coronada, in the walled historic centre of Jerez de la Frontera, between the San Miguel and Santiago districts. The Carmelites settled in Jerez in 1587 and in 1600 established themselves permanently on what is now the Plaza del Carmen.

Its collection brings together more than a thousand catalogued pieces of the artistic heritage of the order’s Provincia Bética, mainly from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The exhibition is organised into sections: the camarín (the small Baroque room behind the altar) and the figures involved in the crowning of the Virgin, paintings from the 17th to 19th centuries, embroidery and vestments, sculptures, goldsmith work and the provincial library.

Among the works the museum highlights are Claudio Coello’s canvas “Apotheosis of Saint Peter of Alcántara with Saint Teresa of Jesus”, a 16th-century silver chalice, an important collection of liturgical vestments made of silver tissue and embroidered in gold and silk, and the outfit worn by the Virgin del Carmen at her canonical coronation on 23 April 1925. The spectacular Baroque camarín houses the image of the Virgin del Carmen, of the late 16th-century Seville school, which the founders of the Carmelite community in Jerez brought from Seville. The visit ends in the Carmelite provincial library, with around 15,000 volumes spread across two rooms, one of which is devoted to books bound in parchment from the 15th to the 18th centuries.

Highlights

• Claudio Coello’s canvas “Apotheosis of Saint Peter of Alcántara with Saint Teresa of Jesus”
• Baroque camarín with the image of the Virgen del Carmen
• Collection of liturgical vestments embroidered in gold and silk
• Goldsmith work and sculptures from the 16th to 19th centuries
• Carmelite provincial library with around 15,000 volumes

Permanent exhibition

• Exposición permanente carmelita de la Provincia Bética – More than a thousand pieces of sacred art from the 16th to 19th centuries: paintings, embroidery, sculptures, goldsmith work and the provincial library.

Founded

1980

Operated by

Provincia Bética de los Carmelitas

Admission & discounts

Donation-based admission of €4; reduced rate of €2 for people from Jerez. The guided visit on Saturdays at 18:00 (basilica, camarín and treasury) is a “free tour”: at the end, each person leaves whatever amount they consider appropriate.

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Getting there & parking

The museum is on the Plaza del Carmen, in the historic centre of Jerez, next to the Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Carmen Coronada.

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