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Archaeological Museum Profesor Sotomayor
Palace of the Children of Don Gome
Description
Located in the Palace of the Children of Don Gome, the Profesor Sotomayor Archaeological Museum is an exciting cultural journey through the archeology and history of this municipality.
The archaeological site of the Villares de Andújar was made known by the archaeologist Don Manuel Sotomayor Muro, because of whom the name has been given to it.
Andujar for its privileged situation has made possible since Prehistory the uninterrupted establishment of the passage of different cultures from Iberian, Roman, Visigoth..., which have shaped our historical legacy.
Museo Arqueológico Profesor Sotomayor
Photo Gallery
LOCATION
Palace of the Children of Don Gome
ADDRESS
Calle Maestra, s/n
CONTACT
953 50 06 03 y 953 51 31 78
museoarqueologicoandujar@gmail.com
SCHEDULE
INVIERNO
Tuesday - Friday: 10:30 - 13:30 / 16:30 - 18:30
Saturday - Sunday: 12:15 - 14:00, except holidays
SUMMER
Tuesday - Friday: 9:00 - 14:00
Saturday and holidays: 11:00 - 14:00
Museum of Plastic Arts "Antonio González Orea"
Church of the Convent of the Capuchin Mothers
Description
Located in the old Church of the Convent of the Capuchin Mothers, the Museum houses the work of the famous sculptor Antonio Gonzalez Orea, whose artistic legacy is present in the Museo Reina Sofia and the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Milan, Rome, Brussels, Ecuador, Peru, Japan, and the entire national territory.
The Museum conserves the works of outstanding master sculptors such as Miguel Fuentes del Olmo, Miguel Barranco, Rodolfo Conesa, Manuel Lopez, Manuel Fuentes, Pedro Ania or Ramiro Megías, among other artists.
Singular, for its expressive force and the explosion of color, is the collection of pictorial works by José Luís Macías Sampedro, from Andújar that has recently donated a large part of his work to Andújar.
Museo de Artes Plásticas Antonio González Orea
LOCATED
Church of the Convent of the Capuchin Mothers
ADDRESS
Calancha Street, s/n
CONTACT
953 50 59 03
SCHEDULE
WINTER: 16 Sept. - 14 Jun
Tuesday: 17:00 - 19:00
Wednesday - Friday: 10:30 - 13:30 / 17:00 - 19:00
Saturday - Sunday: 10:00 - 12:00
SUMMER: 15 Jun. - 15 Sept.
Tuesday - Sunday: 11:00 - 12:00
Photo Gallery
Potter's House
Palace of the Children of Don Gome
Description
Located in the basement of the Palace of the Children of Don Gome, it encompasses the extensive and rich pottery tradition that has characterized this land. Not in vain did our pottery origins go back to the famous Roman algar of Isturgi, dating from the 1st century a.C. and that it was the most important center of ceramic production in Hispania.
This cultural legacy was enriched in Arab and Renaissance times, linked to historical events and popular customs, in this way, ceramics will end up becoming a wonderful reflection of the historical reality of which it was witness.
Casa del Alfarero
LOCATED
Palace of the Children of Don Gome
ADDRESS
Maestra Street, s/n
CONTACT
953 50 06 03 y 953 51 31 78
SCHEDULE
WINTER: 16 Sept. - 14 Jun.
Tuesday - Friday: 10:30 - 14:00 / 17:00 - 19:00
Saturday - Sunday: 12:15 - 14:00
SUMMER: 15 Jun. - 15 Sept.
Tuesday - Friday: 9:00 - 14:00
Saturday and holidays: 11:00 - 14:00
Photo Gallery
Fuentes Olmo Museum of Abstract Sculptures
Camping Square
Description
Fuentes Olmo, born in Andújar in 1940, studied Fine Arts in Seville and Madrid, specialising in Post-Conciliar Sacred Art and monumental murals in reinforced concrete. He is considered to be the introducer, from 1968 onwards, of abstract sculpture in Andalusia.
With regard to his academic activity, he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Granada in 1989, and in 1998 he was appointed director of the "Sculptural Techniques Research" group of the Department of Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the Andalusian Regional Government.
Among his most important prizes and awards, the following stand out: the "Carmen del Río" and "Madrigal" Sculpture Prize in Madrid, the appointment as Numerary Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, the Insignia de Alfonso X el Sabio of the Ministry of Education and Science, the appointment as Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Nuestra Señora de las Angustias in Granada, the Gold Medal of Andalusia, the Gold Medal for Merit in Sculpture from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Granada, the appointment as corresponding foreign academic at the Portuguese Academy of Letters and Arts in Estoril and the Gold Medal of the City of Andújar.
LOCATED
Camping Square
ADDRESS
Camping Square
CONTACT
953 50 25 59
museofuentesdelolmo@andujar.es
Photo Gallery
Mariano Virgen de la Cabeza Museum
Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza
Description
It is located in the premises of the Basilica of the Royal Sanctuary and includes an important artistic, documentary and anthropological exhibition of the historical legacy that the devotion to the Virgen de la Cabeza has been decanting through the centuries.
The museum is divided into three rooms, highlighting in the first the mantels of greater historical significance as well as a picture of the Pilgrimage of the seventeenth century and custody donated by Mussolini; in the second, you can contemplate the mantles given by the kings of Spain and other personalities, several reproductions of the image of the Virgen de la Cabeza, its processional cage, several showcases with objects of great significance, etc. and in the third room we find a model of the sanctuary on a scale of 1/50, the work of Don Manuel Molina and the art gallery of the painter Arsenia Tenerio on the Blessed Isabel Canori Mora.
LOCATED
Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza
ADDRESS
A-6177, Km 30
CONTACT
953 549 015
SCHEDULE
Tuesday - Friday: visits by appointment
Saturday: 12:00 - 13:30
Sunday: 10:30 - 14:00 / 17:00 - 18:00
Photo Gallery
Jardín del Alfarero Museum
Avenida de Andalucía
Descripción
The collection of pieces that make up the Ceramics Interpretation Centre "JARDÍN DEL ALFARERO" aims to raise awareness of the pottery tradition in the city of Andújar from the Bronze Age to the present day.
This exhibition, which houses more than 200 pieces of different characteristics, aims to be a space for the exhibition, research, conservation and dissemination of ceramics in Andújar throughout history, highlighting the uniqueness of the forms, techniques and artists who have made this noble craft a form of expression and a way of life that identifies Andújar as one of the primitive centres of production and marketing of ceramics in the Iberian Peninsula.
The centre has an exhibition area, an audiovisual area with a video that tells the history of these trades, the origins of which are found in the 5th century in the disappeared city of Isturgi, and an area with an interactive model to learn about the work that was carried out in the Roman potteries.
LOCATED
Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza
ADDRESS
A-6177, Km 30
CONTACT
953 549 015
SCHEDULE
Tuesday - Friday: visits by appointment
Saturday: 12:00 - 13:30
Sunday: 10:30 - 14:00 / 17:00 - 18:00