Museo Ramón Gaya

Museum Ramon Gaya. City of Murcia

The Ramon Gaya Museum has an extensive collection of works by the most famous painter of the twentieth century Murcia.

After the generous donations from Ramón Gaya city of Murcia, the City rehabilitated and renovated in 1990 Palarea House, a manor house beautiful picture, painted in "yellow love" in the words of the architect Jose Maria Hervas, and the traditional features of the architecture of the nineteenth century, located in the ancient, alive and lived Plaza de Santa Catalina, which in the past had settled the Al Cartayani, the Lantern of the city and Contrast, heart were mulberry, medieval and baroque city. Murcia City Council acquired the noble building to house the collection donated by Ramón Gaya.

The house was renovated and refurbished by the municipal architect Miguel Angel Beloqui, who respecting all compartmentalized her, keeping the noble, full of spacious rooms part and service with nooks and crannies, adapted it for the Museum able to show a painting "excited" and causes the viewer to "feel and live" painting by Ramon Gaya.