The Museo de Málaga is a museum in

Málaga Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populo ...

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. Formed in 1973, it brought together the former Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes (''Provincial Museum of Fine Arts''), born in 1913, and Museo Arqueológico Provincial (''Provincial Archeological Museum''), born in 1947. As of 2010, the museum remains institutionally divided into two "sections" corresponding to the older museums.Museo de Málaga: Historia
Museo de Málaga. Accessed online 2010-01-19. There are slightly over 2,000 pieces in the Fine Arts collection and over 15,000 in the Archeology collection. The museum opened to the public in December 2016, becoming the biggest museum in Andalusia and the 5th in Spain.

Fine Arts section

The Fine Arts section has its origin in the Royal Decree of 24 July 1913 that encouraged the Ministry of Public Instruction to establish provincial fine arts museums in those provincial capitals that did not yet have such an institution. Málaga's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo ("San Telmo Royal Academy of Fine Arts") had long wished to create such an institution. The Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes was founded 3 February 1915 and opened its doors in a temporary location in the Calle Pedro de Toledo 17 August 1916. In 1920 it moved to the former

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college of San Sebastián, which also housed the Academy and a school of fine arts. It moved to the Buenavista Palace in 1961, but had to leave that facility in 1997 when the Andalusian Autonomous Government bought the palace to convert it into the Museo Picasso Málaga. At that time the Fine Arts section moved to the Palacio de la Aduana, where temporary exhibitions have been held. The museum includes works by Luis de Morales, Luca Giordano, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Antonio del Castillo, Alonso Cano, Pedro de Mena, Jusepe de Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán,

Diego Velázquez Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the Noble court, court of King Philip IV of Spain, Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He i ...

, Francisco de Goya, Federico de Madrazo, Ramón Casas, José Moreno Carbonero,

Enrique Simonet Enrique Simonet Lombardo (February 2, 1866 – April 20, 1927) was a Spanish Painting, painter. Early life Simonet was born in Valencia, Spain, Valencia. His first vocation of childhood was religious studies, but he abandoned it to devote hi ...

, Joaquín Sorolla, Léon Bonnat, Franz Marc and

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

.Monumentos de Málaga
, webmalaga.com, accessed online 2010-01-17, lists Murillo, Zurbarán, Morales, Alonso Cano, Ribera, Luca Giordano, Sorolla, Martínez Cubells, Picasso, and singles out the collection of 19th-century painters, mentioning in particular Muñoz Degrain, Simonet, and Nogales (presumably Avelino Nogales). File:Enrique Simonet - El Juicio de Paris 1904.jpg, '' El Juicio de Paris'' ( ''The Judgment of Paris'', 1904),

. File:Enrique Simonet - La autopsia 1890.jpg, ''Autopsy'', 1890,

. File:El martirio de San Bartolomé, Museo de Málaga.jpg, ''The martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew'', circa 1641.
(attributed to Jusepe de Ribera)

Archeological section

The Archeological section has its origin in a Decree of 1947, integrating the collections of the old Museo Loringiano (based on the 19th-century collection of the

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es of Casa-Loring) and the archeological holdings of the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes. The latter came from digs that had occurred in the province since the 1930s, including digs in the Alcazaba of Málaga, where the new museum opened in 1949. In 1996, rehabilitation of the Alcazaba required a move. The collection was temporarily housed in the 16th-century Convento de la Trinidad until 1999, when it moved to the former provincial historical archive in the Avenida de Europa, which it shares with the Biblioteca Pública del Estado ("State Public Library"). Before the museum opened, there was a series of temporary exhibitions at the Palacio de la Aduana.

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Archeological section

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