Casa Museo Modernista

Museums

This building was ordered to be built at the beginning of the twentieth century, specifically in 1901, by its owner, Mrs. Antonia Navarro Mira, to the Murcian architect D. Pedro Cerdán Martínez, author of the project, and completed in 1903. It is one of the best preserved houses in which the modernist decoration is found with greater profusion and splendor. This house, today owned by the Mediterranean Foundation, consists of a ground floor and two floors, an excellent work of lattices on windows and balconies stands out, but it is inside where the elements of modernism are developed with all their opulence: carved wood, glass, stuccoes, ceiling paintings and murals, marble, period furniture, etc., highlighting for their singular beauty the staircase and the courtyard surrounded by white marble columns. The House-Museum also contains representative collections of graphic arts from the modernist period (brass boxes, posters, bookplates, postcards, commercial advertisements, etc.) as well as a handwritten documentary collection of the distinguished Spanish sailor and scientist of the eighteenth century, Jorge Juan y Santacilia, in which important documents for understanding the role of Jorge Juan in the Enlightenment stand out. These collections, together with the architectural ensemble of the House-Museum, allow us to have a global vision of what the different facets of modernism were.