The best museums Spain

A small museum, located in one of these cave houses, exposes a number of tools and objects from everyday life in the cave.

Housed in Casa de las Bulas, it offers an interesting panorama on art and celebrities of bullfighting.

Visit of a typical finca finca, built just over 200 years ago. The visit, which lasted about an hour, shows the way of life of the Majorquins at that time: agriculture, farm animals… The price of the visit includes a tasting of typical products.

Microscopic versions of works are exhibited here as la Maja Desnuda by Goya painted on the wing of a fly!

Characterized by its chronological scale, it presents an important collection of paintings, engravings, sculptures, decorative arts and other forms of artistic expression. Romanesque and Gothic paintings and sculptures, paintings of the th and th centuries (El Greco, Zurbarán, Ribera: San Sebastian after his martyr). But also Flemish and Dutch works from the th to the th century (Metsys, Van Dyck), Italian (Gentileschi) and French (Gauguin). Finally, a floor dedicated to the masters of the th century: Zuloaga, Picasso, Tápies, Delaunay… an essential complement to the «Guggen» of which he is a neighbour is a beautiful museum.

He exhibits Spanish-Muslim art from the th to the th century (ceramics, wood wood, oriental Muslim art…). Notable works include a superb tablero of nazari ajedrez (walnut and birch wood board, metal and bone) or carved wood jealousy for a window of the Lions Palace (Alhambra).

In a th century building, rooms on two floors give witness to numerous testimonies of rural and urban life in the province of Málaga during the past centuries.

The Bastió de sa Font, located near the town hall and Plaça des Born, is one of the few remaining vestiges of the fortified enclosure built in the ^17th century to replace the medieval wall, which was extensively damaged during the Turkish sacking of 1558. After having served as an extension to the Ciutadella Municipal Museum, this site, owned by the municipality, now fulfils the museum's conservation and research functions. In particular, it houses a dedicated space for researchers.

To the south of the city, perched on the summit of Guanapay facing an incredible landscape, this Museum is located in the imposing Castillo de Santa Barbara built in the 16th century. It was designed to monitor and protect the island from possible pirate attacks. Because at that time Teguise was the capital of the island! The site is perfectly preserved. This modest museum evokes the history and memory of Canary Islands emigrants who left for North and Latin America, including the creation by Lanzarote residents of the city of San Antonio, Texas, in the late 18th century, through moving documents and photographs. Not to mention the whole story about the attacks of these famous pirates. We will admire their sea ships there.

It is the national currency and stamp manufacturing plant. Numismatists will be filled here as this currency museum is one of the most important in the world: history, means of production and objects make the museum a unique place.

Built in the late th century in a neo-classical style, this monastery occupied by the religious nuns of Cistercian order houses an interesting museum of sacred art. Examples of this include the youth paintings of Goya and his brother-in-law Francisco Bayeu.

In a th century hospital, the regional costumes and crafts of the region are exposed.

Located in the banker Fabio Nelli's Renaissance palace. The beautiful pink building houses numerous archeological samples from the Paleolithic, Roman, Wisigothic deposits of the province. Also a fine art section, with some collections of religious paintings from the xive, xve and sixteenth centuries.

It occupies the old church of Santa Clara, built in the th century. Interesting parts of the Wisigothe period in Mérida are displayed.

Insolite, with his collection of objects brought back by the Augustins missionaries since 1565.