Spanish Lustreware

The Institute's collection is now housed in a unique neo-Mudejar building built between 1889 and 1889 to be the private residence of Don Guillermo and Doña Adelaida. Among its more than 8,000 pieces (weapons, Hispano-Islamic ceramics, paintings, etc.), the Institute conserves one of the world’s most important and unknown collections of Hispano-Islamic art. In addition, the Institute's library contains an important archive of 40,000 documents, from the Catholic Monarchs to the 19th century, and an important photographic collection of more than 10,000 originals from the 19th and 20th centuries in different media.