Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga
Renaissance palace of marble courtyards, built over a Roman fish-salting works and centuries of hidden craftsmanship.
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This guide to Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga starts with a simple repair job in 2005, when architects Javier González García and Rafael Roldán Mateo were called in to patch a crumbling palace and instead uncovered thirteen years of hidden history. You'll hear how hand-carved coffered ceilings, five centuries old, emerged from beneath 1960s plaster, and how the ground beneath the marble courtyard turns out to hold the remains of a Roman fish-salting works. Layer by layer, the guide traces every hand, mason, carpenter, curer, that shaped this building before it became a museum.
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