Sede - Edificio Castelao - Bienal de Pontevedra

Exhibition spaces

Castelao Buidling. Museum of Pontevedra

Padre Amoedo Carballo Street, 3

The Castelao Building is the headquarters of the Pontevedra Art Biennial. It is the only building of the Museum of Pontevedra of new construction and was planned as a museum from the start. It is located behind the San Bartolomeu Church and the Sarmiento Building, and occupies the terrain which used to be the vegetable garden of the old Jesuit School. It was built on the grounds of a previous construction from the 20th century, an enlargement of Provincial Nursing Home. The Provincial Council of Pontevedra organised a contest to select the most appropriate construction project, which was awarded to architects Eduardo Pesquera and Jesús Ulargui. The construction work started in 2004 and ended in 2007. It was officially opened to the public on 4 January 2013.

The building takes up 10,000 square meters and its six floors are dedicated to permanent and temporary exhibitions, assembly and restoration workshops, storage rooms, a coffee area, an auditorium, and several areas for different purposes.

This construction has two structures: the glass one, which joins the Castelao and the Sarmiento buildings by two glass walkaways; and a second building, having a stony and compact appearance from the outside, which houses the exhibition rooms.

The Museum’s permanent collection, which displays Galician artworks dating from the Late Middle Ages to present times together with pieces from other regions of Spain, is shown in twenty-three exhibition rooms. The building was named after the Galician writer and artist Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao and some of his most remarkable work can be found here. The Museum also keeps pieces by renowned artists, such as Maruja Mallo, Joaquín Sorolla, Ramón Casas or Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, among others.

https://museo.depo.gal/