El museo de escultura

While in Valladolid, I got the chance to go to the Museo de Escultura, or Sculpture Museum. It is a beautiful museum. Even my friend A--an art historian--agrees. She usually can only handle going to a museum for an hour or two at a time, but she says she spent a full 8 hours there when she went.

One of the most stunning aspects of the Museo de Escultura is the ceilings. When they were renovating the museum years ago, they bought/ salvaged/ restored loads of ceilings from monasteries, palaces, churches (and mosques that had been converted to churches). They then designed the new rooms in the building to fit the rescued ceilings. Imagine a massive puzzle that's shaped like some 14th-15th century palaces with cloisters, needing to be filled with heavy wooden ceilings (usually coffered and painted, with intricate designs). I do not envy the architects, engineers, interior designers and museum staff who had to figure those equations out (and deal with transport, installation, etc...).

This particularly ceiling apparently has no nails. Just intricately carved and fit together.

I just loved the architecture of the building in general. It had the coolest staircase and cloister I've ever seen. 

So intricately carved and and beautiful!!!

It also had a really amazing facade.