Museums route in Extremadura

Extremadura has a big cultural heritage, and big quantity of museums that has great that to offer to the lovers of the history and the art.

From the trips blog, some of the most out-standing recommend you, although in Extremadura you can find more than thirty museums full of works of art and of scraps of history.

• The National museum of Art Romano de Mérida, of Rafael Moneo, has big quantity of pieces of a big historical value. The museum has a few very sober lines, which resemble some of the big constructions to us of the Roman epoch, and in his crypt, you will be able to see a fragment of roadway and some of the ruins that were during his construction. Also, in Merida you will be able to see the enclosure of the Theater and the Amphitheater, and the House of the Mitreo, the Roman bridge, the Temple of Diana … Undoubtedly, the whole city is full of Roman remains that it is worth knowing.
• In Badajoz you will be able to see the MEIAC (Extremaduran and Latin-American Museum of Contemporary art), slightly completely different. The building belongs to José Antonio Galea, and it opened in 1996. Not only he emphasizes for the works of art that it lodges, but also for his own structure, and that not only it is a museum in which works are exhibited, but also, he organizes workshops, temporary samples and activities that keep it alive.
• Close to Caceres you can find the Museum Vostell de Malpartida, a showy complex located in shepherds' old facilities transhumantes: drying rooms, woolen laundry rooms … the collection Wolf and Mercedes Vostell, a selection of plow you conceptual or a donation of Gino di Maggio they are in big cattle ships. Certainly, a slightly habitual Museum, with very showy works.
• The Museums of the Real Monastery of Guadeloupe take us again to the past. The whole Monastery is in itself a museum, and the fact is that not in vain it was declared a Patrimony of the Humanity. Inside the monastery several museums can be seen: that of embroideries, that of sculpture … But it is not necessary to lose the Mudejar cloister and his linens either.

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