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Museo de Bellas Artes
Museo de Bellas Artes, recently reopened after major renovations, is a bright, well-documented gallery. Devoted to Spanish artists, its 1st-floor Siglo de Oro gallery, with canvases by Murillo and Ribera, is the highlight.
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Museo de la Ciencia y del Agua
Museo de la Ciencia y del Agua, also beside the river (and best approached on foot along the riverside walk from Puente Viejo), is one for the children. Although everything's in Spanish, this small hands-on science museum has plenty of buttons to press and knobs to twirl and a small planetarium, too.
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Museo de la Ciudad
Housed in the villa of a prominent Murcia family of the 16th century, the City Museum diligently records the history of the city and region, with a particular emphasis on the region's art, crafts and ethnography. To the rear of the building is an orchard dating back to Muslim times, watered by the Caravija aqueduct.
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Museo de Santa Clara
Museo de Santa Clara is a recently restored Muslim palace. It has an exquisite courtyard and an important collection of Islamic art within a closed-order convent with its own rich treasures, assembled over the centuries. Phone to reserve a 45-minute guided tour in English.
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Museo Hidráulico
Giant grindstones and delicate working models are the permanent features of Museo Hidráulico, a restored water mill that's also used for temporary exhibitions.
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Museo Salzillo
Museo Salzillo, devoted to the Murcian sculptor Francisco Salzillo (1707-83), is in the baroque chapel of Ermita de Jesús. It displays his impressive pasos (figures carried in Semana Santa processions) and his superb miniature Nativity figures carved in wood.
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