Malaga Museum
Neoclassical customs palace with grand colonnades, holding archaeology and fine-art collections.
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This guide to the Malaga Museum tells the story of a customs palace planners built to sit right at the water's edge, only for the sea to keep moving on them. Construction began in 1791, but French troops sacked the half-finished site during the Peninsular War in 1810, delaying it more than a decade before it finally opened in 1829. You'll hear how, decades later, the city reclaimed land all over again to build the seafront park nearby, leaving the palace stranded from the shore a second time. Notice how far you now stand from any water as you take in its neoclassical colonnades.
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