Museum of Realist Art

The garden of the Fontecha Palace is a surprising secret place in the center of Albacete and is the space that completely articulates the project. Thus, the access to the Palace is produced from the garden canceling the entrance from Tesifonte Gallego street and in the garden two small pavilions are built, one for that access and the second for the cafeteria, which establishing visual links with the Palace order the space of the garden.

The two most noble floors of the palace are freed from any other use than exhibition. The Palace maintains its profuse decorations completely intact and put in value that contrast with the dry canvases of Spanish realist painting. This way of articulating the whole of the museum's rooms, 'exploited' in the garden, gives the garden its meaning, but also allows multiple uses in which the different pieces may or may not enter into resonance. We leave the Fontecha Palace as intact as possible as a frozen trace of the past, expressing with a certain obscene ostentation its falsified wealth; we give value and life to its exceptional garden.