Fundacion Laxeiro

The Casa de las Artes in Vigo, also known as the Fundación Laxeiro, is the main exhibition venue of the city's cultural department. The building, designed by Romualdo de Madariaga and constructed in the 1930s, served as the home of the Banco de España branch from 1939 until the mid-1980s. Its architectural character is defined above all by the striking central entrance facade. Since 1990, the building has hosted a wide range of temporary exhibitions, from painting and sculpture to photography and scientific and ethnographic themes. The ground floor houses the Archivo Fotográfico Pacheco, which preserves around 140,000 historic photographs of Vigo from the period between 1879 and 1970. The second floor presents the collection of local artist Luís Torras, while the third floor is dedicated to the Fundación Laxeiro. There you can see the work of the Galician avant-garde painter José Otero Abeledo, complemented by rotating presentations of contemporary artists.