The Castelao building is a modern architectural building from the beginning of the 21st century located on the corner of Padre Amoedo Carballo and Sierra Street in

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the ''Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality whi ...

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

, on the edge of the historic centre. It belongs to the

Pontevedra Museum The Pontevedra Museum (formerly the Pontevedra Provincial Museum) is a museum in the Galician city of Pontevedra in Spain. It was founded by the Provincial Deputation of Pontevedra on 30 December 1927 and has six buildings for its exhibitions. ...

History

On 2 May 2003, during the inauguration of the extension of the Fernández López building of the Museum of Pontevedra, its director announced that a new museum building would be built between Cobián Roffignac and Sierra streets. The building was built between 2004 and 2008 according to a project by the architects Eduardo Pesquera and Jesús Ulargui to overcome the

's lack of exhibition space. It is located on the site of the former orchard of the Jesuit College in the city, behind the college and the church of Saint Bartholomew. The building was financed by the Deputation of Pontevedra, with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the

Xunta de Galicia The Xunta de Galicia (; "Regional Government of Galicia") is the collective decision-making body of the government of the autonomous community of Galicia, composed of the President, the Vice-President(s) and the specialized ministers (''Consell ...

and the Pontevedra City Council. The project involved the creation of a new pedestrian street between Padre Amoedo and Arcos de San Bartolomé streets. The temporary exhibition space was inaugurated in July 2008 with the Art Biennial dedicated to the Maghreb. After the implementation of the museography, the building was inaugurated on 4 January 2013. On 2 December 2021, it was named the Castelao Building, in honour of

Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao (30 January 1886 – 7 January 1950), commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identi ...

, one of the founders of the

Description

The building covers an area of 10,000 square metres and consists of three floors and a ground floor. It has 23 permanent exhibition rooms, with mostly pictorial works, which show the evolution of Galician art from the Gothic period to the present day, as well as artistic manifestations from other regions of Spain from the time of

Goya Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and ...

to the mid-20th century. Three of the rooms are dedicated to Castelao and there is also ample space for the rich collection of Spanish painting by painters such as

, Fortuny, Rusiñol and Vázquez Díaz, and for Galician art with a broad representation of renovators such as Maside, Torres, Souto, Colmeiro and Laxeiro. The building also has temporary exhibition rooms, an auditorium, a cafeteria and workshop spaces. In addition, on its underground floor, a 50-metre section of the remains of the ancient

walls of Pontevedra The walls of Pontevedra were a fortification of the city of Pontevedra (Spain), which disappeared for the most part towards the end of the 19th century, although some remains are still visible, the most important being the crenellated section in ...

can be seen, integrated into the building., The most remarkable feature of the building is its brightness. It is built around two rectangular structures connected by glass walkways. The interior combines white concrete in the structure with granite floors and bleached wood floors in the rooms. The smaller southern module is glazed to give it lightness and to facilitate the transition to the museum's Sarmiento building, to which it is connected by two glass walkways at mid-height. The northern structure, which is more imposing and airtight, has granite exterior walls and longitudinal glass security panels that allow natural light to enter from the upper part of the rooms and function as zenithal windows.

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File:Museo de Pontevedra-La pantalla del 6º edificio (14693450461).jpg, Interior File:Pontevedra 58-20b.jpg, Entrance to the building File:Museo de Pontevedra-Pasillo Sexto edificio (8361975583).jpg, Corridor inside File:Pontevedra 61-57b, murallas na rúa Sierra.jpg, Remains of the ramparts File:Pontevedra capital Sexto Edificio Museo Pontevedra calle Cobian Roffignac.jpg, Main facade File:Pontevedra-6º edificio del Museo (12284101633).jpg, Interior glass walkways File:Pontevedra-Colores de invierno (17589661121).jpg, Pedestrian street File:Pontevedra-Sexto edificio del museo, planta 2h (8533888366).jpg, Second floor File:Pontevedra-Sexto edificio del Museo2 (8178209962).jpg, Glass building File:Pontevedra-Sexto edificio del museo, planta2v (8537996127).jpg, Second floor

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