Carmen Thyssen Museum, Art museum in central Málaga, Spain.
The Carmen Thyssen Museum is an art museum in central Málaga housing Spanish paintings and artworks. The building contains extensive gallery spaces organized to showcase works from the 1800s in a climate-controlled setting.
The museum opened in 2011 within the Palacio de Villalón, a 16th-century building that had been carefully restored. Renovation work in 2005 uncovered Roman-era remains beneath the structure.
The collection shows works by Spanish painters depicting everyday life and historical moments of their time. These paintings give you a sense of how people lived, worked, and spent their time in Spain during the 1800s.
The location in the old city center makes it easy to reach on foot, with modern facilities including proper temperature and lighting control throughout. There is a café on-site for breaks and a shop where you can find books and exhibition-related items.
Beneath the building lies a Roman villa from ancient times with decorative mosaics and wall paintings still visible. Walking through the museum, you are literally standing above a place where people lived and decorated their homes over 2000 years ago.
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