Museum of Navarre, Pamplona

Museum of Navarre

Location	Spain
Coordinates	42°49′10″N 1°38′47″W / 42.8195°N 1.6464°W / 42.8195; -1.6464Coordinates: 42°49′10″N 1°38′47″W / 42.8195°N 1.6464°W / 42.8195; -1.6464
Type	monument
Website	www.navarra.es
Location of Museum of Navarre, Pamplona
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The Museum of Navarra is the art museum of Navarre, and is located on Calle Cuesta Santo Domingo in Pamplona, in the Navarre province of Spain.

History[]

The museum is sited in the old hospital of 16th-century Nuestra Señora de la Misericordia de Pamplona, converted to museum only in 1956. The origins of the collection are works obtained by a provincial Commission in 1844, and displayed in 1910 at what is now the Cámara de los Comptos. To the right of the entrance is the facade of the church of the hospital.^[1]

The exhibits in the four story museum is chronologically arranged, starting from prehistoric works to the 20th-century. Among its collections are:

• The “Mapa de Abauntz”, a prehistoric engraving on a block with geographic signs
• Triumph of Bacchus first-century mosaic from the Ancient Roman town of Andelos, near Mendigorría
• Romanesque capitals of the ancient cathedral of Pamplona
• Ivory Mozarabic chest (1005) from the Monastery of Leire
• Romanesque murals from San Martín in
• Romanesque murals from belfry of San Pedro de Olite
• Murals from San Saturnino in Artajona
• Gothic Murals (1330) from the Refectory of the Cathedral of Pamplona by
• Murals from Gallipienzo and Olleta
• Grisaille Renaissance Murals from the Palacio de Óriz depicting the War in Saxony of Charles V
• Statue of San Jerónimo by
• Ecce Homo attributed to Luis de Morales
• Paintings by Vicente Berdusán
• Coronation of the Virgin by Francisco Camilo
• Annunciation by
• San José by Alonso del Arco
• Immaculate Conception by
• Still-life with Fish by school of Mateo Cerezo
• Story of Genesis (1700), twelve paintings on copper by the Flemish ,
• Portrait of Leandro Fernández de Moratín (c. 1790) painted by Luis Paret
• Portrait of the Marquis of San Adrián by Goya

In addition the museum displays works by artists from or active in Navarre such as , , , Caro, , , Salaberri, Aquerreta or Manterola. The church is used to display retablos and religious art.^[2]

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