Valencia City of Arts and Sciences Tourist Guide Valencia

The Museum of the City of Valencia is currently showing the exhibition “”En el camino”, in which the artist Horacio Silva shapes the impressions that a trip to China gave him.
Horacio Silva has confessed that, at the outset, when they proposed to him this exhibition, he had doubts, a thought that is recognized like one of the majors errors of its race because at present it is enchanting to make this sample.
Although the subject of the exhibition is appellant, the trips continue being a constant for this artist. The exhibition houses pictures not only from the trip to China, but also of others. [...]

The Fine Arts Museum is currently showing the exhibition “The birth of a painting from the visible to the invisible
This exhibition, through high-resolution infrared reflectography shows underlying drawings made before applying layers of colour from a select group of artists, Spanish, Italian and Flemish from the XV and XVI. These great painters of the past were unable to imagine that future researchers would get look at their designs, which reveal the personality of their strokes, full of vigor and beauty.
The study of these drawings, which have remained hidden for so many years  helps determine the tools and painting materials used by artists, [...]

The Botanical Garden of Valencia is a beautiful backdrop to an exhibition of Moving bodies.
The Botanical Gardens is currently presenting/displaying the sculptural exhibition “DEL COLOR AL B/N, pasando por la madera” roughly translated as “OF the COLOR TO the B/N, happening through the wood” by the Valencian artist Luis Creek.
Visit the gardens to see a game of colours, textures and shades that cover all and also emulate and characterize, emblematic personages from the history of the cinema, through moving bodies carved in wood. Decomposed abstraction and pieces form the work of this artist and designer, strongly influenced by the MGP art.
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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.
Sometime [...]

La Ciudad de la Porcelana
In 1953 Juan, José and Vicente Lladró made their first creations in a Moorish furnace built in their own home in Almàssera (Valencia). Using this technique, they developed their artistic interest while working in a tile and crockery factory. These carefully designed pieces already had a special charm that awakened public interest.
By 1955 they begin making sculptures in which a clear influence of the trends of the XVIII century could be observed. These pieces embraced the style and design of former porcelain artists such as Meissen, Sèvres and Capodimonte.
In 1958 Juan, José and Vicente decided to dedicate [...]

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 [...]