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Museo de Segovia

Provincial museum of archaeology, ethnology and fine arts in the Casa del Sol, a former slaughterhouse on Segovia's medieval city wall.

Opening hoursAdmission €1

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About the museum

The Museo de Segovia opened in 1842 in the bishop's palace, under the supervision of the Provincial Commission for Historic and Artistic Monuments, to preserve artworks from the Desamortización (the 19th-century sale of Church and monastic property). Over the years it had several names: Museo de Pinturas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Museo Provincial and finally Museo de Segovia. In 1845 it moved to San Facundo, but from the second half of the 19th century its collections were spread across several sites until 1967, when they were reunited in the Casa del Hidalgo and the adjoining building. In 1981 its management passed to the Autonomous Community of Castile and León, although ownership remains with the State.

In 1991 the collection moved to the Casa del Sol, a building ceded to the State by the city council, and the permanent exhibition opened to the public in July 2006, after years of renovation. The building occupies a spur of the medieval enclosure, above the Clamores river and between three stretches of the city wall. The earliest references date from 1452 and document a slaughterhouse that operated until 1973. The renovation, carried out intermittently between 1986 and 2006, organised the museum around a central courtyard with a gallery.

The collection brings together archaeological, ethnological and fine arts holdings, mostly from the province of Segovia: paintings, sculptures and decorative arts from the Desamortización, inscriptions and architectural fragments, and archaeological and numismatic pieces from excavations, donations and deposits. The Museo Zuloaga, housed in the church of San Juan de los Caballeros, is its branch.

Highlights

Chronological tour of the province's history, from geology to the 20th century
Ancient and medieval inscriptions and the Barral collection in the courtyard
15th- and 16th-century sculpture
Building on the medieval wall, with access to the walkway and city views
Branch: Museo Zuloaga, in the church of San Juan de los Caballeros

Permanent exhibition

Exposición permanente del Museo de Segovia – Chronological tour of the province's past, from geology and the first inhabitants to the 20th century, with rooms on the Late Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque, 15th- and 16th-century sculpture and the Bourbons.

Founded: 1842
Operated by: Junta de Castilla y León (gestión); titularidad estatal
Director: Santiago Martínez Caballero

Admission & discounts

Adults	€1
Children & teens	freefree up to age 17 · Free admission for minors who are citizens of the European Union, on presentation of the accrediting document.
Seniors	freeFree admission for people over 65 and retirees.
Visitors with disabilities	freecompanion free · Free admission for people with a disability of 33% or more and, where essential, for their companion.
Students & apprentices	freeFree admission for university students.
Families	freeFree admission for members of large families of any category, single-parent families and families with multiple births or simultaneous adoption.
Temporary exhibitions as determined	€0.60

Free admission: 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 opening time.

Admission to the permanent exhibition costs €1. Free entry, with accreditation, is also available to unemployed people, teaching staff, tourist guides of Castile and León, holders of the Carné Joven or an 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. Free entry also applies to holders of the “Amigos de Segovia” tourist card, exclusively at the Museo de Segovia and the Museo Zuloaga.