Museo Provincial de Lugo, Provincial museum in Lugo, Spain.
The Provincial Museum of Lugo occupies the former convent of San Francisco, remodeled and expanded by architect Manuel Gómez Román, who drew on the structure of Galician pazos. Its light beige ashlar facade has five windows behind a balustraded balcony and a sixth above a small stone balcony; the lower level holds a carved coat of arms between two poster panels, and a blue double door beneath the inscription "MUSEO PROVINCIAL". Inside, 28 rooms on two floors preserve the 15th-century cloister, the 18th-century kitchen and refectory.
The museum was founded in 1932 by the Provincial Council of Lugo and moved to its current location in 1957 in the former Franciscan convent. The relocation allowed for the combination of historic monastic spaces with modern exhibition areas.
The museum keeps the convent's 18th-century kitchen, with its stone hearth, and the refectory, where models of Galician traditional houses and pallozas are shown. The 15th-century cloister displays Roman altars and stelae, medieval tombstones, heraldic shields and a collection of sundials, the oldest dated 1685.
The museum entrance is on the Praza da Soidade, in the city centre, where the blue double door sits beneath the carved inscription "MUSEO PROVINCIAL". A wooden ramp with steps leads up to the door past a low stone balustrade. Inside, the 28 exhibition rooms are split over two floors, with the cloister, kitchen and refectory of the old convent among the spaces to seek out.
Two Roman mosaics found during excavations on Rúa Armañá are shown in a room by the temporary exhibition hall. One depicts the myth of Daedalus and Pasiphae; the other has floral and geometric motifs. A funerary stele from Crecente, of the 1st to 2nd centuries AD, stands at the side of the room.
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