Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

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 [...]

Casa Palau Juan de Valeriola
The Valeriola Casa-Palau in the city of Valencia is representative of civil Gothic buildings dating from the XIV century. Built in the14th century, the palace has outstanding stone arches, typical Romanesque windows and wooden ceilings.
The palace was the residence of the influential gentleman Joan Valeriola, descendant of Arnau Valleriola, the most important financier in Valencia in the 14th century. The last member of the family to occupy the palace was Gaspar, who was related to the Borja family after marrying Anna de Borja, Pope Alexander the 6th’s niece, between the XV and XVI.
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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.

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 [...]

Try to catch an excellent exhibit called Modern India at the IVAM. Visitors were taken a tour of India’s history, from colonialism to the present day, through the eyes of its artists.
A large, comprehensive exhibit, filled with oil paintings, sculptures, photography, and audio-visual displays, Modern India provided an excellent couple hours of escapism.
If you didn’t get to see it, hopefully the pictures in this post provide an acceptable substitute. The exhibit was split into 6 periods, organized by time. The first two detail the colonial period, when the British ruled, then slowly lost their grip on the subcontinent. Things got psychedelic, as [...]