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MURAM - Regional Museum of Modern Art (Aguirre Palace)

The museum occupies the Aguirre Palace and an adjoining modern building, on Plaza de la Merced. The palace is a Modernista work by Víctor Beltrí, commissioned in 1898 by the mining entrepreneur Camilo Aguirre and completed in 1901. The façade combines a Cartagena-style bay window, sculpted bees as a symbol of prosperity through work, ceramic angels at the top and a ceramic dome. Inside, original features survive, such as the vestibule, an imperial staircase, a neo-Gothic oratory and a neo-Rococo ballroom with ceiling paintings by Cecilio Pla. MURAM opened in 2009 and focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art up to the mid-century, with works from the Region of Murcia and elsewhere.

Things to do at MURAM - Regional Museum of Modern Art (Aguirre Palace): 3 missions

• Look for the bees sculpted on the façadeLook at the palace façade and find the sculpted bees, a Modernista symbol of the prosperity that work brings.
• See the dome and the ceramic angelsFrom Plaza de la Merced, look up and find the ceramic dome and the ceramic angels at the top.
• Look up at the ceiling painted by Cecilio PlaInside the palace, find the neo-Rococo ballroom and look at the ceiling paintings, with an allegory of spring.

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Source: Web oficial - Murcia Turística