The Museum will be closed while the building is undergoing a renovation
Our offices will be at the Fundación Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, rúa do Vilar, nº 7, bajo, 15705 Santiago de Compostela
NEW TEMPORARY LOCATION OF THE EUGENIO GRANELL FOUNDATION
Starting July 10, the Eugenio Granell Foundation is temporarily closing its doors to the public, due to the beginning of remodelling work in its building: Pazo de Bendaña, a unique example of civil architecture in Compostelas baroque style, attributed to the architect Clemente Sarela.
During a period of 9 months (the estimated time of the refurbishment), the Eugenio Granell Foundation will concentrate on its re-opening, although it will also organise some activities for the public. For example, it will create an educational suitcase to promote Eugenio Granells work and surrealist aesthetics. This will involve ad-hoc workshops and talks imparted by Granell Foundation personnel, who will visit schools, cultural associations and miscellaneous institutions throughout Galicia.
From July 20, the Eugenio Granell Foundations technical staff (management, administration, conservation, restoration and registration, exhibitions, press and communication, cultural activities, education department, archives and library) will move to premises kindly provided by the Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Foundation, located at 7 Rúa do Vilar, in the centre of the old town.
Consorcio de Santiago will implement the family of Eugenio Granells commission to house, inside the Foundation building, the artists Library, made up of around 14,000 volumes and his personal archive. It will also fulfil a promise made to an institution that owns an extremely important collection of artworks and documentation, restructuring the space used for restoration and conservation.
The institutions collection features works by Eugenio Granell as well as such outstanding figures as Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, among others, along with a complete collection of contemporary surrealism. Apart from this surrealist heritage, it has a collection of traditional art from 3 continents (Africa, Europe and America) that is unique in the Iberian Peninsula. The Foundation also houses a collection of plastic work by the British surrealist artist Philip West, as well as his personal library specialised in surrealism.
For all of these reasons, the Foundation needed to expand its exhibition space, to make room for Granells personal library and archive, and space to house and conserve, in the best way possible, its collections.
