Lleida Museum, officially the Diocesan and Comarcal Lleida Museum ( Catalan: ''Museu de Lleida'', ''Museu Diocesà i Comarcal de Lleida''), is an art and history museum located in

Lleida Lleida (, ; ; '' see below'') is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital and largest town in Segrià county, the Ponent region and the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It ...

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. It is owned by the

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, the Lleida city council, Roman Catholic Diocese of Lleida and the

comarcal council The comarcal council ( Catalan: ''consell comarcal'', Galician: ''consello comarcal'', Aragonese: ''concello comarcal'', Spanish: ''consejo comarcal''), also somewhat misleadingly referred to as ''county council'', is a local administration an ...

Segrià Segrià () is a comarca (county) in Catalonia (Spain). It is located in the western region of Ponent, bordering Aragon. , over two thirds of its population live in the capital city of Lleida, which is also Catalonia's sixth largest municipality ...

, of which Lleida is the capital. The museum was established in 1997, while the current building in

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was inaugurated in 2007. It assembles a variety of collections, including

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, Romanesque,

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and

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art. The museum was controversial from its onset: some of the pieces on display were found in the Catalan-speaking part of

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known as Franja de Ponent, adjacent to Lleida and previously belonging to its local

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, which however were segregated by

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decree in 1995, and now belong to the neighbouring

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, a merger of former dioceses. They have been claimed by Aragonese institutions ever since.

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