Heritage conservation

Description

Museum history

The museum is located in the Plaza de España. Access to it is located in the interior gallery of the square, between the Puerta de Aragón and the North Tower. He is the heir to a large part of the funds of the old Seville Artillery Museum, in whose 1897 Memorial a reference is made to a "model room", which has been considered the germ of the first artillery museum in the city of Seville. . Over time, the collections have been increasing, adding to the collections of the Maestranza, those from the Military Fireworks and its apprentice schools, the Royal Artillery Factory, as well as those from dissolved military units, belonging to mainly to the Plaza de Sevilla. The Museum was inaugurated on December 18, 1992 and remodeled in 2000, to provide it with the facilities that can be visited today. The reform has made it possible to recover the original architectural conception of the creator of the Plaza de España complex, Aníbal González.

Content

With an exhibition area of ​​2,036 m2, the Museum is made up of seven rooms, in which most of the approximately 4,000 collections it gathers are exhibited.

They are of a very varied typology, including Industrial Archeology, military devices, History, Art and industrial development, as well as those that recall Seville's relationship with the Army.

Of the different collections that house the rooms, the following are noteworthy: Military History Hall: collections of Uniformology, Vexillology, Civil War (1936-1939), War of Independence, Taxdirt and Royal Artillery Factory.

"Captaincy General" Hall: a wide collection of all kinds of weapons, white and firearms, long and short.

Hall "Avenida Cuartel Maestre": collections of the Arms and Bodies of the Army.

Hall "Huestes y Mesnadas": collections of the Pirotecnia and Maestranza de Artillería de Sevilla.

"Adalid" Hall: collection of works by students from the apprenticeship school of the Maestranza de Artillería de Sevilla.

“Prevention Guard” room: recreation of a Guard Corps, a troop chamber and a trench firing point.

Schedule:

Monday to Friday: from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Saturdays: from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Sunday, holidays and August: closed

Rate: Free entrance

Seville Military Museum

Plaza de España, Seville, Spain