El Cadiz Museum is in the Mina Square, In the city center. There, in a neoclassical building that belonged to the Convent of San Francisco, the old museums of Fine Arts and Archeology in 1970.
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Its distribution on three perfectly differentiated floors takes us through the best of the museum collections.
The ground floor: Archeology.
It has eight rooms dedicated to Prehistory, Colonizations, Roman times, medieval, modern and contemporary times and the Patio de Bellas Artes. The funds in this section come almost exclusively from Phoenician and Roman excavations in the city and the province and from wrecks off the Cadiz coasts. Among its greatest treasures are two anthropomorphic Phoenician sarcophagi from the XNUMXth century BC corresponding to a couple.
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The first floor: Fine Arts.
A room dedicated to the Numismatic Cabinet, four rooms dedicated to painting from the XNUMXth to the XNUMXth centuries and two rooms for the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries. It is one of the most important art galleries in Spain with important works of the Spanish and European Baroque and, especially, a monographic room on Zurbarán's work. Funds that come from the church and state collections and private bequests.
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The second floor: Ethnography and Contemporary Art.
It exhibits paintings by contemporary masters such as Miró and the collection of drawings by Rafael Alberti. It also includes the "Tía Norica Puppet Theater", a traditional Cadiz show that reflects an interesting ethnographic study through the traditional Cadiz puppets of the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries.
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El Time: Tuesday from 14 to 20:30 p.m., Wednesday to Saturday from 9 a.m. to 20:30 p.m. and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 14:30 p.m. The entry It is free for Spanish and EU citizens. Other countries, € 1,50.
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