Basque Ethnographic Museum
Occupying the building corresponding to which outside School of the
Jesuitas from its construction in 1604 to 1767, the present image of the
Ethnographic, Archaeological Museum and Historical Basoue it is the fruit of the restoration of 1964 that maintains the initial
structure but from the functional optics to serve as Museum, as well as the one of its last carried out remodelings recently, as much in
the museum scope as in the museográfico.
Within the new adaptations, it is possible to emphasize the opening of
a new main access from the seat of Unamuno that contrasts with the architecture of the building where it is located, in addition to the
entrance for minusválidos which it has in the street Maria Muñoz.
With permanent exhibitions as as much temporary, the building has
quadrangular plant, with four communicated wings, that are divided as well in rooms, dedicated each one of thematic them to concrete:
the Room of the Consulate of Bilbao, the Bizkaia Room, Prehistoria, the
Iron and the Ferrería, the Sea, the Basque Ethnography and the Religious Art popular vizcaino.
In addition, the ground floor of the Museum is presided over by the
emblematic Mikeldi, figure animal dated in the Age of Stone, around which we will be able to observe amount of funeral elements and
stone statures of heráldico character.
Opening:
11.00
- 17.00 ( of Tuesday to Saturday)
11.00
- 14.00 ( Sunday)
Museum Reproductions
At first it can that hits a little to us the fact that Bilbao counts
on a Museum of Reproductions of the Universal Art, welcoming this way simple copies of classic sculptures, which, in opinion of some, takes
to question its reason of being.
In fact, the museums of existing reproductions in the world are few
and they are different clearly from the others, not as much by its content as by the purpose for which they were created: the Didactics
of the History of the Art, as opposed to safeguard it of the patrimony.
The idea to create a Museum of Artistic Reproductions attributes to
Manuel Ramirez Escudero, who in 1922 presents/displays a motion to the
Meeting of Basque Culture, proposing the creation, in Bilbao, of a museum of these characteristics. Thus, in 1927 a Museum of Artistic
Reproductions is created, whose contents are drained in stucco of works more known the History of the Universal Art.
Taking a walk between their different corners, the exposed works cause
that we are transferred momentarily to other galleries like the Louvre, the Academy of Florence or the British Museum, finding us
to each passage with work copies of the stature of Lady de Elche, the Discóbolo, Venus de Milo, the
Hermes de Praxíteles or the Moisés de Miguel Angel.
And it is that, as its own name indicates, the bottoms that integrate
the collections of this museum are masterpiece stucco reproductions of
the sculpture and architecture of all the times and styles although
is possible to emphasize as much that the thickness of the collections
composes it, by the amount of pieces, like by its quality, the reproductions of the Greek Art and the Renaissance of which it has
managed to reunite more of a hundred of pieces in more than thousand square meters of museum.
The schedule is of Monday through Friday from 09,30 to 11,30 19,00 h.
and from 16,00 to h.
Saturday
and festive Los remain closed and Sundays it opens of 11,00 to 14,00 hours.
Museum Sacred Art
Moving to us until the Seat of the Incarnation we were with the Museum
Diocesano de Sacred Arte, where the exhibitions show works related to the religious art of Bizkaia.
El old convent of the Incarnation of Atxuri, founded on 1515 by
Dominican nuns, had to hope until 1995 until being opened to the public with the purpose of a museum, between whose walls important
pieces of the History of Bilbao are locked in.
This transformation came given after the important flaws undergone
because of the 1983 flods, where the waters reached the 4.10 meters.
Therefore, it was in 1991 when the City council yielded to the Diocese
the building to dedicate it to Sacred Museum, with the support of the
Delegation, that financed preparation works. Like result, claustro can
be appreciated square, that is a harmonic and quiet space very adapted
to the new function.
The bottoms on which it at the moment counts the Museum correspond to
eight centuries of history in which accumulated objects applied to the
cult coming from the churches of the Dioceses are had, also having significant contributions of the Delegation, and the Archaeological
Museum, Ethnographic and Historical Basoue of Bilbao.
Collections:
Religious Platería: with remarkable pieces made in
factories of Bilbao and America.
Sagradas clothes: ornamentos from
century XVI to century XX. Sculpture, painting, alabaster, ceramics,
leather... from the Romanesque one to our days.
The opening schedule
is of 10,30 to 13,30 hours and 16,00 to 19,00 hours of Tuesday to
Sunday, with the exception of Saturdays that are not opened in vespertine
schedule.
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