"Created by the Provincial Council of Lugo in 1932 with the intention of gathering and protecting different assets of the province's heritage dispersed in private collections and public institutions, the museum initially occupied one of the rooms of the Provincial Palace of San Marcos. In 1957 it moved to the current headquarters, made up of the premises of the old convent of San Francisco and a new building designed by the architect Manuel Gómez Román. Since that date the museum has undergone various expansions.
On the first floor you can see the collection of mosaics from the 3rd century that appeared on a site on Armañá Street in Lugo; the collections of sacred art, which include an image of the Savior in stone from San Pedro de Fiz de Muxa (Lugo), a large sample of Mannerist and Baroque Gothic imagery, silver processional crosses and various objects for religious use; and in the cloister, pieces of epigraphy, heraldry and other stone collections. The ethnographic collections are displayed in the convent kitchen on this floor, next to the convent's refectory.
In the upper part of the cloister is the Prehistory and Archeology room in which a chronological exhibition is made from the Paleolithic to the end of Romanization; also the ceramic, glass, numismatic and medal collections.
On the second floor, the collection of Galician art, focused on painting and sculpture from the 19th and 20th centuries, deserves special attention, with monographic rooms dedicated to Antonio Fernández, Julia Minguillón and Corredoira, as well as the Sargadelos ceramics collection, to which a room in which pieces from all periods of the Royal Factory's production are displayed.
As a result of the restructuring in 2010 carried out on the first floor of the new extension building inaugurated in 1997, the Galician drawing and engraving section was located there with the monographic rooms of Castelao, Prieto Nespereira and Castro Gil, keeping the collection of skylights"
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