COMPOSTELAs summer program CORUNA-VIGO Tours

The building is organized around a bright central atrium, flooded with light from a large skylight, and conceived as an extension of the street into the building. Entry into the building takes the visitor first through a large colonnade and then through a compressed threshold that emphasizes the long axis of the atrium lobby by framing a small interior court at the other side of the building. The lobby is conceived as the museums integration element--both the temporary exhibition galleries and the auditorium open onto it. A slight bridge connects the exhibition rooms showing the museum’s permanent collection of paintings and sculpture to the museum wing that houses the ceramics and engraving collections and which was formerly a convent (the interior court mentioned above was once used as a garden by the nuns residing there).