- The Provincial Museum began as the old Museum of Painting, founded in 1846, which later became the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, based in the Palace of the Provincial Council of Jaén.
- José del Prado y Palacio, who was mayor of both Jaén and Madrid, promoted in 1920 a new building for the Museum on the Paseo de la Estación, where it still stands.
- In 1969 the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts merged with the Archaeological Museum to form the Provincial Museum of Jaén.
- The Museum has a main building in the Regionalist style and two annexes added in 1965. The main building holds the permanent Fine Arts and Archaeology exhibitions, while temporary exhibitions are held in one of the annexes.
- Its Archaeology section has one of the most important collections of Iberian art in all of Spain.
More about this place…
On the Paseo de la Estación, its main building was put up in 1920 to house the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, until then in the Palace of the Provincial Council of Jaén. It now has permanent Fine Arts and Archaeology exhibitions, as well as temporary ones. It stands out for having one of the most important collections of Iberian art in all of Spain.
