Pontevedra's eclectic museum is scattered over five city-centre buildings. If time is limited, head for the bright new Sexto Edificio and the adjoining Edificio Sarmiento in a renovated 18th-century Jesuit college.
The Sexto Edificio has three floors of Galician and Spanish art from the 14th to 20th centuries, though you won't find any really big names. The Edificio Sarmiento houses an absorbing collection ranging over Galician Sargadelos ceramics, modern art (including a few works by Picasso, Miró and Dalí and Tapiès), statues of prophets from the original facade of Santiago de Compostela cathedral, and prehistoric Galician gold jewellery, petroglyphs and carvings.
Displays in the Edificio Castro Monteagudo and adjoining Edificio García Florez run from Spanish Renaissance art to the captain’s saloon of a 19th-century warship. The Ruínas de San Domingos harbour an intriguing assemblage of heraldic shields, sepulchres and other medieval carvings in a ruined 14th-century church.
