Museu De Lleida 3 START of the JOURNEY: INHERITORS of A
START OF THE JOURNEY: JOURNEY OF EXPERIENCE: CONTINUATION OF THE INHERITORS OF A DESIRE A MUSEUM WITH A BEATING JOURNEY: AND A TRADITION HEART A LOOK TO THE FUTURE It is hoped to make the Museum a This is a living building. On the The Museum suggests a journey, a meeting point, a square where the surface, it is an ordered set of look to the future. When we men and women of our city can stonework, cement, concrete, metal immerse ourselves, we discover that meet to discover the heritage as we and glass. However, the reality is we, as heirs to the Iberians, look towards the future. The hope is that it is a living being, with a Romans, Muslims and Christians, that it will be a lingering memory, a heartbeat and which breathes, are the rightful owners of the legacy journey towards an archipelago of which sleeps when it is closed, but and heritage on display inside, a realities with which we should be which awakens when visitors tread tangible and undeniable familiar. The Museum of a land and its halls. manifestation of the existence of an its people. Our Museum, as well as identity united with the yours. The new building encases, embraces geographical and historical reality and protects this church, part of the of the plain of Lleida and our We are the inheritors of human former Discalced Carmelite convent. historical bishopric. action which has made it possible to Building work commenced in 1595, recover a part of our past and to then it became an Alms House The Museum is the starting point on preserve it, bold and daring following exclaustration and given a journey traversing frontiers, tracts initiatives arising at decisive over to welfare services until 1999.
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