Museo Patio Herreriano, Contemporary art museum in Valladolid, Spain

The Museo Patio Herreriano occupies the Patio Herreriano, a cloister of the former Monastery of San Benito el Real begun in the 14th century and rebuilt at the end of the 16th by Juan de Ribero Rada following Herrerian models and Palladio's influence. Its rehabilitation by Juan Carlos Arnuncio, Clara Aizpun and Javier Blanco, nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2003, sets new galleries against the historic stonework. Inside are the Capilla de los Condes de Fuensaldaña and the Sala Gil de Hontañón, where part of a mural painting was recovered.

The museum opened in the early 2000s within sections of a former monastery whose architecture dates to the 1500s. This conversion transformed historic monastic spaces into galleries for displaying modern Spanish art.

The name comes from the Patio Herreriano, the cloister of the former Monastery of San Benito el Real, begun in the 14th century and rebuilt at the end of the 16th by Juan de Ribero Rada following Herrerian models and Palladio's influence. Inside are the Capilla de los Condes de Fuensaldaña and the Sala Gil de Hontañón, where part of a mural painting was recovered.

The museum occupies the Patio Herreriano, a cloister of the former Monastery of San Benito el Real, entered from a small square with a garden and a pond. The rehabilitation by Juan Carlos Arnuncio, Clara Aizpun and Javier Blanco added new gallery traces alongside the historic stonework. Look for the Capilla de los Condes de Fuensaldaña and the Sala Gil de Hontañón inside.

In 2005 the museum took in the archive of Madrid's Galería Buades, not a book collection. The Ángel Ferrant bequest it holds is larger still: 34 sculptures, 406 drawings and over 35,000 documents. The Buades material sits in the documentation centre and library.