Quixote Museum and Cervantine Library

Phone: 926200457

Website: www.castillalamancha.e...

Location

Next to the Gasset Park.

Fees

Entrance Free

How to get there

Road transport

In the Exhibition Room on the first floor a dialogue between ten characters from Quixote is simulated through the play of lights and shadows. Of particular note are the Master painter Palmero’s depiction of the Burial of Don Quixote. Ten paintings also make up the exhibition in the Anteroom, the work of José Jiménez Aranda, one of the 19th century’s best Quixote illustrators.

In Projection Room 1, there is The first impression, a montage that transports the public into the atmosphere of a Madrid printing house at the beginning of the 17th century; while in Projections Room 2, A journey through Quixote, combines the projection of images of elements of the setting with readings that aim to entertain and delight the general public as they pass through some of the scenes from the story.

All of this is accompanied by readings from Don Quixote with Cervantes’ unsurpassable, carefree and sometimes comical prose.

Students of the work of Cervantes also have a Study Centre at their disposal and a very good Library with a collection of 3500 items, all related to the Cervantine theme. There is a reading room, set up for twenty researchers and a room for digitising and cataloguing documents.

Museum content

Painting, Sculpture and Plastic Arts related to Don Quixote and the Cervantine Library.

Governing body

Ciudad Real Town Council.

Services

Library, Projections Room and Events Room with space for 90 people.