Museo de Málaga / Museum of Malaga
As if we didn’t have enough in the ‘Museum City’, we’ve been gifted one more. The Museum of Malaga reopened on 12 December 2016, nearly two decades after it closed.
Located in the city’s old customs house (la Aduana), a stone’s throw from the teatro romano, this museum brings together the province’s Fine Arts and archaeological collections which until 1997 were housed in the building now known as the Picasso museum and the Alcazaba, respectively.
Several protests and 19 years later and the people now have their museum back.
The restored Aduana boasts 18,000 square metres of exhibition space, more than the CAC, the Thyssen and the Picasso museum combined.
It is now home to 15,000 archaeological artefacts and more than 2,000 Fine Arts pieces, tracking the city’s heritage from prehistoric times, all the way through to the 21st century.
Click here for information about opening hours and entry.
Daryl moved to Malaga permanently in 2014 having first fallen in love with the city on his Erasmus year. After working for many years at local expat newspaper SUR in English, Daryl gained expert knowledge in life from the perspective of foreign residents and decided to co-found Malaga Guru in 2016.