1. The museum and its building

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1. The museum and its building

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We are in one of the oldest buildings in La Puebla de Cazalla, built in the sixteenth century as a granary to store grain and wheat. The records show that the writer, Miguel de Cervantes, was here in 1593, where he came as the Royal Commissioner of Provisions to acquire supplies for the Crown and the Spanish Armada. After various uses throughout its history, such as a prison or school, among others, it was designated in 1987 as the José María Moreno Galván - Casa Panera Cultural Center, in memory of the famous art critic who died in 1981.

The aim of this project was to preserve José María Moreno Galván's spirit of bringing everyone closer to the keys to understanding contemporary art. With this intention in mind, the town council renovated and enlarged the old granary. The project was carried out between 1984 and 1987 under the direction of the architect José María Raya, and at the same time the collection, created thanks to the donations of the numerous and relevant artists linked to the Moreno Galván brothers, was started, in which the most significant trends of the second half of the 20th century are represented.

In 1995 it was inaugurated as the José María Moreno Galván Museum of Contemporary Art and integrated into the Spanish Museum System.