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Baza Archaeological Museum

Located in a historic setting, the museum exhibits archaeological finds from different periods, with its collection of Iberian, Punic and Roman artefacts sta...

The Municipal Museum of Baza owes its origin, without doubt, to archaeology. As early as 1945, when the notary public, Mr. Angel Casas Morales, was the Local Commissioner for Excavations. Angel Casas Morales, it was considered advisable to create an archaeological museum in Baza where the findings produced during the excavations that the aforementioned commissioner was carrying out at that time in Cerro Cepero, an archaeological site that he had already declared BIC Historic Site in 2003, at the junction of the city's historic centre and the site of the Municipal Museum of Baza, declared BIC Historic Site in 2003, at the junction of the Plaza Mayor and Alhóndiga Street, in the surroundings of what was once the medina of the Muslim Baza, next to other monumental elements of the entity of the Iglesia Mayor, the old co-cathedral collegiate church built on the Arab mosque and at the foot of the Alcazaba enclosure, in the process of recovery.Its headquarters occupy two adjoining historic buildings from the 16th century. He rightly cited as the site of the ancient Basti: "Cerro Cepero, found the old site of our ancestors who were the capital of the Bastitania and have been cut different levels of the stone age, Iberian settlement, Punic elements and a Roman upper floor. In the following years other possible locations were considered and several unsuccessful attempts were made to open the museum, and in 1983 the Baza Town Council bought a batch of pieces from a local collector, D Lupe E. Llorente Llorente, for 200,000 pesetas, from the area around Cerro Cepero, Cerro Santuario and Cerro Largo, where he owned land. Some time later, in 1988, the Diputación Provincial de Granada gave the Baza Town Hall the grave goods from tombs 46, 53 and 62, from Cerro del Santuario, acquired at auction in Madrid, and in the same year the Baza Museum was opened in the recently refurbished premises of the old Town Hall of the city. The founding collection is basically made up of some pieces recovered by Mr. Ángel Casas, the lot bought from Mr. Lupe Llorente, the trousseau of the Provincial Council and the replica of the Lady of Baza, as well as a series of books from the Municipal Historical Archive and other movable objects of institutional representation, such as silver maces from the 18th century or the so-called royal standard, supposedly from the 16th century, and restored in the 70's of the 20th century.In 1998 the Museum of Baza entered the list of museums registered and noted preventively in the Register of Museums of Andalusia with the name of the Municipal Museum of Baza, code 026-B-022, according to the Order of 12-VI-1987, BOJA 84 of 22-VII-1997.The current Municipal Museum of Baza is located in the heart of the historic centre of the city, declared a BIC Historic Site in 2003, at the junction of the Plaza Mayor and Alhóndiga Street, in the surroundings of what was once the medina of the Muslim Baza, next to other monumental elements of the entity of the Iglesia Mayor, the old co-cathedral collegiate church built on the Arab mosque and at the foot of the Alcazaba, in the process of recovery, its headquarters occupies two adjacent historic buildings of the sixteenth century.