Santander has also a small Museums offer. Unfortunatelly the new BOTIN ART CENTRE created by RENZO PIANO is still underconstruction, it will open in 2014. But if it´s a rainy day you can visit the following museums and exhibitions, please check the timetable.
The museum has been opened again in July 2013. The place is the basement of the Este Market in the centre of Santander, this is only temporary because a new building near is going to be the future museum. Here you can enjoy some masterpices and their quality is extraordinary. It´s highly recommended. It´s open from Wednesday to Sunday.
Close to Los Peligros beach you can visit this small museum. It´s well located and some of the information is quiet interesting. Also you can practise your Spanish. Be careful: Mondays closed.
That´s an art museum in the centre ( 6 Rubio Street). There aren´t masterpieces but it is interesting. You can find a Goya´s painting and some Blanchard´s paintings too. You will learn a lot about the painters of landscapes. Sometimes they have expositions.
Just next to the Museo de Bellas Artes there are the Menendez Pelayo´s Library and house. You can visit both, it´s specially nice the wooden library, but be careful with the time tables.Menendez Pelayo was a very important Spanish writer of the 19th century and he was born in Santander.
A bit far away from the city centre there is the most important light house in Santander. The views are fantastic and inside there is a nice collection of objects related with the light houses and the sea. You can take a walk from the last Sardinero beach or take the bus. The best option is the number 15 from the Stations to the faro but only in the summers. The other options (number 1 or2) leave you a medium walk distance form the Faro.
Just in the parking of the Alfonso XIII square you can visit the oldwharves. The exhibition is quite interactive and interesting but you need to go first to the tourist office in the Pereda garden so as to close an appointment to visit it
This is not a museum but in this exhibition centre you will find quiet interesting art exhibitions and they are changing often. So you will need to visit the web page of the Botín Foundation and look for EXHIBITIONS/ CONFERENCES. The center is just behind the Banco de Santander building in the Paseo de Pereda Avenue (3 Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola Str.).
This beautiful small building is just in the middle of the port. Next to the boats that take you throught the bay. If you pass and it is open, you can go inside becuse it has free exhibitions all the year yound.
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