The Museum of Malaga is a museum of the Spanish city that houses the collections of two other museums that previously existed, namely the Museum of Fine Arts and the Provincial Archaeological Museum.
For this reason, both archaeological and pictorial collections (19th and 20th century) are collected here. The Malaga Museum is the fifth largest museum in Spain and the largest in Andalusia.
The museum is housed in the Palacio della Aduana, designed in 1788.
In its spaces there is a wonderful section of Fine Arts, which includes paintings and sculptures by artists such as Luis de Morales, Luca Giordano, Murillo, Antonio del Castillo, Alonso Cano, Ribera, Velázquez, Vicente Carducho, Goya Pedro de Mena or Zurbarán and then again works by Sorolla, Carlos de Haes, Federico Madrazo, Esquivel, Vicente Lopez Portaña or Ramón Casas, as well as some of the most famous members of the so-called Malagueña School of Painting: Moreno Carbonero, Enrique Simonet, Degrain Muñoz, José Nogales or Bernardo Ferrandiz . The museum also possesses pieces of Spanish modern art up to the 1950s with works by Picasso, Rafael Canogar, Juan Barjola, Oscar Dominguez, and Josep Guinovart, among others.
As for the archaeological collection, this has more than 15,000 pieces, which cover a historical period ranging from the eighth century BC to the Middle Ages. Pieces from excavations conducted by the University of Malaga and various lots from archaeological prevention and emergency interventions carried out in the urban center of Malaga were also incorporated.