Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

Company, design and innovation are united this summer at the Cultural Bancaja in Valencia with a proposal that offers the public the lifeline of companies.
Valencia: Design and Innovation, organized by the Bancaja Foundation with the collaboration of the Group of Investigation and Management of Diseño (IGD) of the Polytechnical University of Valencia, shows the visitor the different values from innovation, through design, that have helped 17 company leaders.
Alvento/Zed, Antares, Banak, Bancaja, Boreal, DAS, Emuca, Etra, Fermax, Gamesa, Gandía Blasco, Logopost, Mercadona, Micuna, Porcelanosa, Punt Mobles and Siliken, are the protagonists of this exhibition that allows you to encounter some  of the designs and [...]

On June 28, 2001 the Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i de la Modernitat opened to the public, better known as the MuVIM it had to overcame problems caused by the emergence of complex archaeological remains in the surrounding landscaping.
It is located in a stark building, the architectural work of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra Seville, and falls under the Provincial Council of Valencia.  Dedicated to the field of art known as the beginning of the Enlightenment it also extends its content to include the study and analysis of modernity.  It also has a showroom that plans to integrate part of the program organized by the [...]

El Almudin
Constructed in the 16th century the El Almudin building in Valencia served as a warehouse. This gave rise to the name “almudin” from Arabic. The structure was used to store the grain for the city.
Originally it would have a much smaller build but it has been expanded over the centuries XV and XVI to take on the appearance it has today. For example, the porch was built in the first half of the sixteenth century and the original building would have had an open central courtyard but  in the early seventeenth century  it was joined by the cover, giving the image of [...]

The Museo de la Ciudad is dedicated to the history of the Valencia area and stands in the Old Quarter.
It houses an archeological collection illustrating the pre-Roman age and the founding of the city, and a part of the municipal art gallery.
The Museo de la Ciudad is a former palace of nobles, currently housing 15th to 20th century art from the collections of the Valencian government and private homes. Almost all of the painting and scupltures are by Valencian artists. Some are good, some are bad, but all are unknown. If you like art you could find this interesting – it is a [...]

The intention of the IVAM, the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, is the investigation and diffusion of twentieth-century art. Its programme of activities offers permanent collections, temporary exhibitions, talks, courses, workshops and publications.

It has two premises: the Centre Julio González, opened in 1989, and the Sala de la Muralla opened in 1991.
The Centre Julio González is a newly-erected 18,000 m2 building, most of which is open to the public. Of the total floor space, 60% is occupied by eight galleries that house both permanent and temporary exhibitions. One of these galleries, with its own separate entrance, shows the remains of the mediaeval [...]

Sala Parpalló was created in 1980 and forms part of the chain of museums belonging to the Regional Council of Valencia.
When it started it was the first public space devoted to showing modern and contemporary art in the city of Valencia.
Sala Parpalló has just had its first quarter century anniversary and has reopened its doors in a new, singular space – the old refectory of the Trinity Convent (15th century). It continues to maintain its focus of showing the finest modern and contemporary art works.
The dialogue it has between both new and established artists, the commitment to new languages and exhibition [...]

Casa Museo Jose Benlliure
This beautiful museum was constructed in a classicist style in 1885.
It was acquired later by Jose Benlliure, who added a Mediterranean garden to it, using some elements of the demolished convent of San Francisco. The house recreates the bourgeois life of the end of the XIX. It has been perfectly renovated and restored, maintaining much of the original garden and features.
It now houses paintings, sculptures, drawings and pieces of ceramics that were not only admired, but also made by Jose Benlliure, Mariano his brother and his son Peppino, as well as works of Sorolla, Muñoz Degrain and other artists.

This casa museo was bought and reformed by the famous Spanish novelist Blasco Ibanez (“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”) and now houses his personal items and memrobilia.
The reconstructed villa of insigne Valencian writer is framed against the beach of Malvarrosa, and turned today into a House-Museum, it lodges personal memories, objects, and literary works. There is also an ample garden, that makes the visit more attractive, by the sensation of placidness and beauty.
The novelist, journalist, politician, and war correspondent Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was born in Valencia in 1867. He was outspoken against the monarchy and was imprisoned 30 times for political activism [...]

The Museum of Beautiful Arts of Valencia, also known as the Painting Museum of the Carmen, Provincial Museum of Beautiful Arts, or more recently the Museum San Pío V from the building that hosts it, is one of the most important in the Valencian Community as far as historical paintings go.
It is formed by a great pinacoteca and an ample floor of drawings and engravings, besides sculptures, archaeological pieces, architectonic fragments, decorative photographs and arts. Its history is long and risky, with of ups and downs of all types, in which stages and moments of crisis are laid out, but it always leads [...]