carmus museum

In the same convent house founded by Teresa de Jesús there is a museum that reaches the 900 square meters of exhibition and includes some of the original rooms of the convent, today rehabilitated.

The collection is articulated on the dressing rooms, rooms designed to host the relics of the Saint, and ends with the visit to his tomb.

The different rooms house important works of Renaissance and Baroque art -all of them with religious themes-, of painting, sculpture, goldsmithing and furniture, among which are canvases, carvings, altarpieces, reliquaries and ivories of magnificent quality. The number and quality of the works of art in this museum is impressive, but if only one work were to be highlighted, this would be the famous Dolorosa carved by Pedro de Mena around 1675.

Also surprising is the collection of figures of the Child Jesus with varied dresses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Equally essential is the rich collection of paintings on copper sheets or on noble stones that this museum holds.