Museo de Málaga

Málaga's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo ("San Telmo Royal Academy of Fine Arts") had long wished to create such an institution.

[1] In 1920 it moved to the former Jesuit college of San Sebastián, which also housed the Academy and a school of fine arts.

At that time the Fine Arts section moved to the Palacio de la Aduana, where temporary exhibitions have been held.

The collection was temporarily housed in the 16th-century Convento de la Trinidad until 1999, when it moved to the former provincial historical archive in the Avenida de Europa, which it shares with the Biblioteca Pública del Estado ("State Public Library").

Before the museum opened, there was a series of temporary exhibitions at the Palacio de la Aduana.