Monasterio de la Concepción (Museo Conventual)
Franciscan enclosed convent in the lower Albaicín with twelve rooms of religious art, archives and goldsmith work, open on weekday and weekend mornings.
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About the museum
The Monasterio de la Concepción is one of the oldest and most representative enclosed convents in Granada. It stands in the lower Albaicín, a World Heritage neighbourhood, opposite the Alhambra and parallel to the Carrera del Darro. A papal bull of Pope Leo X founded it in Rome in 1518 for Franciscan nuns of the Third Order Regular.
The complex rises over Moorish palaces, houses and gardens from the Muslim period, which are integrated with the buildings of a Christian convent. The nuns have lived there without interruption from the foundation to the present day, so visitors walk through the rooms in their original context and not only through a collection on display, as in a typical museum.
The heritage accumulated over five centuries includes archive documents, publications from the old Granada printing press, vestments and goldsmith work. The most valuable items are the sculpted and painted images, the work of artists such as Jacobo Florentino, Sánchez Cotán, the García brothers, Pablo de Rojas, Alonso and Pedro de Mena, Alonso Cano, Bocanegra, José de Mora and Risueño. To these are added thematic cycles of clay sculptures.
Highlights
- Convent in use since its foundation, with the nuns still in enclosure
- Route through twelve rooms, including the chapter house, cloister, lower choir, church and oratory
- Sculptures and paintings by Alonso Cano, Pedro de Mena, Sánchez Cotán and José de Mora
- Collection of clay sculptures grouped into thematic cycles
- Archives, vestments and convent goldsmith work
Permanent exhibition
- Museo conventual – A route through twelve rooms of the convent with painting, sculpture, goldsmith work, archive documents and convent objects, seen in the setting for which they were made.
- Founded
- 1523
- Operated by
- Comunidad de religiosas franciscanas de la Tercera Orden Regular
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Getting there & parking
The monastery is on the Placeta de la Concepción, in the lower Albaicín, parallel to the Carrera del Darro and opposite the Alhambra.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | The route passes through twelve rooms of the convent, including the chapter house, the Sala de Profundis, the cloister, the lower choir, the church, the parlour (locutorio) and the oratory. |
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