Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo, Print art museum in Old Town, Marbella, Spain.
The Museo del Grabado Español Contemporáneo is a print art museum housed in a former Renaissance hospital building in the Old Town with multiple exhibition halls. The space contains thousands of prints and offers visitors an overview of different printing techniques and artistic approaches across several centuries.
The museum was founded in 1992 as Spain's first institution dedicated entirely to print art. Its establishment was based on a substantial donation of prints that formed the foundation of the collection visitors see today.
The collection displays works by Spanish artists using various printing techniques that visitors encounter while exploring the exhibition rooms. You can observe how print art has evolved over centuries and the range of approaches artists have taken with this medium.
The museum sits in central Marbella's Old Town and is easily reached on foot when exploring the area. The galleries are straightforward to navigate and comfortable to move through.
The building itself is the former Hospital Bazán, a 16th-century example of Renaissance civil architecture in Marbella's old town. The museum opened there on 28 November 1992 after Professor José Luis Morales y Marín (1945–1998) donated his private collection of more than two thousand prints.
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