Granada

La Alhambra Museum
Palace of Carlos V. Alhambra.
Microbus-Alhambra. Open: Tuesday to Saturday, 9am to 2:30pm
Telephone: 958 22 62 79

Housed in the Palace of Carlos V, within the Alhambra, the Alhambra museum occupies the Southern wing of the Palace on the ground floor. It is divided into seven rooms (arranged in chronological order) which are dedicated to Hispanic-Muslim culture and art. The museum was created in 1870 to look after the many archaeological finds acquired by the Provincial Commission for Monuments. In 1994 it was assigned to the Alhambra and Generalife Trust.

Museums of Fine Arts
Palace of Carlos V. Alhambra.
Microbus-Alhambra. Open: Summer (April through September): Tuesday 2:30pm to 7:45pm. Wednesday to Saturday 9am to 7:45pm. Sunday 9am to 2pm. Winter (October through March): Tuesday 2:30pm to 6pm. Wednesday to Saturday 9am to 6pm. Sunday 9am to 2pm.
Telephone: 958 22 48 43

The Fine Art museum is situated on the upper floor of the Palace. This museum preserves important works of art starting from the 16th century, including pieces by Alonso Cano and Machuca. Especially noteworthy is the sculpture El Entierro de Cristo (The Burial of Christ) by Jacobo Florentino. There are also other masterpieces to be found from the baroque, neoclassic and romantic periods as well as paintings from Granada (19th to 20th centuries). Manuel Angeles Ortíz should also be mentioned because the museum keeps an important collection of his works of art from the series "Albyzín" and "Paseo de los cipreses".

Royal Chapel Museum
Cathedral. Buses 3, 4 & 8.
Open: 10am to 1pm and 3:30pm to 6pm. From April to September afternoon hours are 4 to 7pm.
Telephone: 958 22 92 39

This museum houses important works of great historical and artistic value, including the crown and scepter of Queen Isabella and a priceless collection of panels from the Flemish School, a gift from the Queen to Granada.

The chapel is also a museum of things related to the capture of Granada and the conquest of the Americas. Isabel also amassed a collection of hundreds of great art – but Napoleon stole almost all of it.

Rodríguez-Acosta Foundation
Callejón del Niño del Royo, Microbus-Alhambra.
Advanced booking for visits is necessary. Open: 10am to 1:30pm.
Telephone: 958 22 74 97

A collection of decorative arts, important archaeological artefacts, and some works by the Granada-born painter José María Rodríguez-Acosta are on display.

Archeological Museum
Carrera del Darro, 41.

Microbus-Albaicín. Open: Tuesday 3pm to 8pm, Wednesday to Saturday 9am to 8pm, Sunday 9am to 2:30pm.

Telephone: 958 22 56 40

A collection of artefacts from prehistoric to Carthaginians, the Phoenicians, the Romans and the Arabs.

Jose Guerrero Centre
Oficios 8.
Phone 958 225 185
Opening hours: Summer (16/ 6 - 15/9). Tuesday - Sunday, 10 - 14 and 19 - 22. Rest of the year. Tuesday - Sunday, 11 - 14 and 17 - 21.

This museum is dedicated to show and promote the Granadian artist Jose Guerrero. The museum is situated in a beautiful house from the 19th century designed by Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas.

Museum of Federico Garcia Lorca
Poeta Federico García Lorca 4.
Phone 958 516 453
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10.00 - 19.00.

This was the residence of the famous poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Here you can find paintings, manuscripts, photos and other original documents of Lorca and of other artists from this period like Dali.

Museum of Manuel de Falla
Antequeruela Alta 11.
Phone 958 229 421
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10.00 - 15.00.
This museum is located in the house where the famous composer used to live. Here it is possible to seek out the scores of Love the Magician and El retablo de Maese Pedro or simply the silent murmur of the gardens that so seduced the composer from Cádiz, convincing him to settle in Granada.
Apart from personal objects you can find paintings of Picasso and the house is surrounded by beautiful gardens.

Museum Parque de las Ciencias
Avda de la Ciencia, s/n
www.parqueciencias.com
Phone 958 131 900
10.00 to 19.00 from tuesday to saturday
10.00 to 15.00 sundays, holidays and monday prior to holidays
Closed: January 1st, May 1st and December 25th, every Monday (except holidays and prior to holidays)

The Science Park is an interactive museum of over 70.000 square meters located a few short minutes from the historic city centre of Granada, with one of the most varied offers for cultural and scientific leisure in Europe.
Museum most visited in Andalucia, it proposes a large choice of temporary y permanent exhibitions where you can learn while participating in a myriad of activities
The Science Park is divided in diferent spaces:
- the Macroscopio
Al-Andalus Science Pavilion, Pavilion of Journey through the Human Body, Prevention Culture Pavilion, Techno-Forum Pavilion, the Museum Attic's Exploration Hall, the Temporary Exhibition Pavilion
- the Foucault's Pendulum Building
Biosphere Hall, Eureka Hall, the hall of Perception, Exploration Hall, the Planetarium
- outside
Observation Tower, Tropical Butterfly House, Botanical Routes, Birds of prey in flight, Nature Spaces Pavilion, Astronomical Observatory
- the Milky Way Building

The House of Los Tiros
Pavaneras 19.
Phone 958 221 072
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 14.30 - 20.00.

This 16th century palace is called "the House of the Shots" because of the canons which jut out from its battlements. Apart from having a continuous exhibition devoted to showing the history of Granada, this house is a cultural house with concerts, modern exhibitions, poesy lectures etc.

The coffered ceiling of the great hall called the Cuadra Dorada, on the second floor, is an extraordinary masterpiece of graphic art, with the vivid portraits of Spain's great heroes, from the time of the Moorish invasion to the Reconquest of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs.

The House of the Pisa
Convalescencia 1.
Phone 958 222 144
Opening hours: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 13.00.

In this house from the 16th century used to live the famous Spaniard Saint Juan de Dios. The house consists of 12 smaller rooms and 3 large exhibition halls where you can find Spanish and international art as well as furniture, jewels and ceramics from the 16th century.

The Max Moreau Museum
Camino nuevo de San Nicolás 12.
Phone 958 293 310
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10.00 - 13.30 and 16.00 - 18.00.
You can see a great display of paintings by Max Moreau in this lovely setting. An old Moorish-style house in the Albayz where he lived and worked, has been converted into a gallery and museum. Along with the work he left to his favourite city, you can see his studio and find out about his private life and his love for Granada through an exhibition of personal photographs.

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