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The
Museum of Cadiz
is a
museum
located in
Cadiz
,
Spain
. It was founded in 1970 after the merger of the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts with the Provincial Museum of Archaeology. It is on three floors, archaeology on the ground floor, art on the first, and puppets on the second floor.
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Entry is free for citizens of the European Union.
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The origin of the museum came in 1835, when art was confiscated from a monastery, including paintings by
Zurbaran
taken from the
Charterhouse of Jerez de la Frontera
. Other paintings included the works of
Murillo
and
Rubens
. The collection grew during the century, due to the city's Academy of Fine Arts which practised romanticism and neoclassicism. In 1877, after a Phoenician sarcophagus was found in the city's shipyard, the Archaeological Museum was founded.
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However, it was not until 1970 that the two institutes, despite sharing the same building, were merged. From 1980, the architect Javier Feduchi planned a reform of the building in three phases, of which two have been completed.
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In addition to the 19th-century pieces, the art museum has received contemporary art from the
Junta de Andalucia
. Its archaeological section has also received donations, particularly of coins. Despite a range of prehistoric findings from Southern Andalusia, due to local history, it has a lack of artefacts from the Middle Ages. The "Tia Norica" set of puppets, used at the
Carnival of Cadiz
, was acquired by the State.
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