The Museum of Fine Arts of Cordoba is a museum of the Andalusian city. Inaugurated in 1844, it is housed in what used to be the old Hospital of Charity in Cordoba. The museum's collections tell the story of art in Cordoba, from the 15th century to the present. The first group of works consists of paintings and sculptures from 1835 and 1868, most of which come from various Andalusian convents. The museum was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural in 1962, in the Monuments category. Over the years, the art collections have been augmented by gifts, purchases and deposits. The collection of the Marquise of Cabriñana (1898) and Ángel Avilés (1922), the Mateo Inurria deposit (1943), the gifts of Luis Bea Pelayo (1948 and 1962) and Camacho Padilla (1969), the family collection Romero de Torres. The museum also possesses paintings by other Spanish artists including José de Ribera, Valeriano Domínguez Becquer, Antonio Maria Esquivel, and Carlos de Haes. The Romero de Torres collection is divided into three parts: paintings by Rafael Romero Barros; paintings by Rafael, Enrique and Julio Romero de Torres; paintings by Rafael Romero de Torres Pellicer. The archaeological section includes Iberian, Roman, Visigoth and Andalusian objects.