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MUSEUMof the ALHAMBRA
Carlos V Palace
The Museum of the Alhambra is located on the south side of the ground floor of the Palace of Charles V (Palacio de Carlos V). It has seven halls, the first hall houses thematic exhibitions and the other halls are located in chronological order.
It was created in 1870 to guard the numerous archaeological testimonies collected by the Provincial Commission of Monuments. In 1994 he was assigned to the Council of the Alhambra and Generalife.
1 APRIL – 14 OCTOBER15 OCTOBER – 31 MARCH
- Wednesday to Saturday: 8:30 a 20.00 h
- Sunday and Tuesday: 8.30 a 14.30 h
- Mondays: closed
SATURDAYS IN THE MUSEUM (MAY TO SEPTEMBER)
- Wednesday to Saturday: 8:30 a 18 h
- Sunday and Tuesday: 8.30 a 14.30h.
- Mondays: closed
Price
- 8.30 – 21.30 h
Free entrance
PERMANENT EXHIBITION
- ROOM I: The faith, science and economy.
- ROOM II: Art Emirate and Caliphate.
- ROOM III: Art of the Caliphate, the Nasrid.
- ROOM IV: Nasrid Art. Public buildings.
- ROOM V: Nasrid Art. The Alhambra and architecture.
- ROOM VI: The Alhambra Nasrid art, material culture.
- ROOM VII: Nasrid Art. The Alhambra, material culture.
FINE ARTSMUSEUM
Carlos V Palace
17 JUNE - 30 SEPTEMBER
Tuesday to Saturday 09:00 to 15:00; Sundays and Holidays 09:00 to 15:00. Mondays closed (except holiday eve, with holiday hours) Open all holidays, including local. Closed 1 MAY.
1 OCTOBER - 31 DECEMBER
Tuesday to Saturday 09:00 to 18:00; Sundays and Holidays 09:00 to 15:00. Mondays closed (except holiday eve, with holiday hours) Open all holidays, including local. CLOSED 1 and 6 January, 24, 25 y 31 December.
priceFree admission for Spanish and other European Union citizens accredited. Other countries: 1,50 euros.
The Fine Arts Museum occupies the top floor of the Palace. Its funds are Grenadines sculptures and paintings from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. Among the most significant include Limoges enamel, the Burial of Christ, the work of James Florentino, the thistle Still Fray Juan Sanchez Cotan and masterpieces of Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and painting grenadine of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably Manuel Angeles Ortiz, whom the museum has an important collection of works of his series of "Albyzín" and "Ride of the cypresses."
