What to see / Museums

The museum, conceived as archeological museum, is located in the cloister and connected to the Capela das Reliquias (Chapel of Relics), the Panteón Real (Royal Vault) and the Tesouro (Treasury). 

Founded in 1977, the museum is devoted to cultural anthropology and it was created to house the diverse manifestations of the tradicional Galician culture.

A unique magic museum in Galicia located in the historical center of Santiago, featuring guided visits with interactive illusions and live magic performances.

The museum reflects the great importance of the pilgrimages to Santiago for the European culture, as well as representations of the Apostle Santiago, and objects related to the pilgrimage and the worship of St. James. From the large skylight on the second floor, there is an amazing view of the cathedral with its impressive tower of the Berenguela and part of the historical town.

Designed by the portuguese architect Álvaro Siza, the CGAC offers the main up-to-date tendencies in art.

Architectonic referent for the 21st c. The museum houses big temporary exhibitions.

It contains magnificent Baroque altarpieces, the ashlar choir –part of it having once belonged to the Cathedral- and the visitable exhibition with interesting sculptures, liturgical objects, engravings and other valuable pieces.

Through the works and legacy that Granell handed down to Santiago de Compostela and Galicia, his Foundation keeps alive the essence of the different forms in which Surrealism takes place.

This museum-house reproduces the environment of a 19th century student boarding house. Its literary referent is the boarding house in the novel “La casa de la Troya”, by Pérez Lugín.

It houses pieces of great historical and documental value, as well as liturgical objects of the 18th century and fragments of the cloister by Mestre Mateo.

This museum offers an overview of the history of the territory described in the Bible, from the Paleolithic to the present. The exhibition is based on archeological findings and highly accurate models.

This museum houses some of the most important and representative works of the furnishing of the benedictine monastery of San Paio de Antealtares, between the 1st and the 19th centuries, as well as the altar of Antealtares.

In this museum the visitor will find collections about zoology, geology and botany concerning the area of Galicia, as well as of other places of the world, amongst which the collection of Haüy stands out, illustrating the beginning of the crystallographic studies.

Located in the school of medicine, this small monographic museum exhibits the old instruments used in the medical speciality of Anaesthesiology.

Devoted to the recovery, safeguard, study, showing and spreading of the pedagogical legacy of Galicia.