Museums

Easter Museum

Santiago’S main church and Museum-Chapel Of The Santo Sepulcro

Museum-Chapel of The Rollo's Confraternity

Beso de Juda's Confraternity Chapel

Jesús Nazareno's Museum

Easter Museum

On the 22th March 2002 (Sorrows Friday), this Chapel is handed, in a solemn act, with the presence of the Mayor and the Town Councillors, by part of the honourable Town Hall, the President of the Central Board of Brotherhoods and the Confraternities’ Presidents. The creation of this first Easter Museum, is a factWe can appreciate on it a little showing of the rich and varied imagery, so as of standards and tunics, which form our Easter. As for the sculpture, we can admire a little representation, being currently on exhibition; the Cristo de las Cinco Llagas (Vázquez Juncal, 1993), which presides over the exhibition at the main altar; the Aparición a Santa María Magdalena (Hernández Navarro, 1993), wonderfully erects at the middle of the chapel; carrying on by the gospel’s side, we have the Cristo Humillado (Spiteri Sánchez, 2003), and we have La Samaritana (Lozano Roca, 1949), in the chapel; in the epistle’s side we have the Verónica (Francisco Liza, 1997), and in the chapel, a Virgen Dolorosa (Sánchez Lozano, 1964), carving owned to the group Santo Costado de Cristo.

We can contemplate an excellent collection of some of the most representative standards of our confraternities, as they are the Oración del Huerto (Abellán Mula / José David, 1966). Beso de Judas (Salvador Palao / López Martínez), Cristo de la Caída (Bleda Carrión / Ciriaco Ruiz), Vera Cruz’s Brotherhood and Santo Sepulcro (Alfredo Lerga, 1942). We can also admire diferent brotherhoods’ tunics, corresponding to several periods. All this is in a faithful reflection of our processions and our religious imagery heritage that, yet being small, it makes an effort for teaching us the splendour of our Easter Week.

TimeTable

Saturday: from six to eight in the evening. Sunday: from eleven in the morning to half past one in the afternoon. Visits can be arranged calling to the 968 78 04 24 or 968 78 27 40.

Santiago’S main church and Museum-Chapel Of The Santo Sepulcro

The museum is placed in a quiet Renaissance chapel, where in the past it was situated the primitive sacristy of the church, before the construction of the current one of baroque style. This octagonal floor small chapel, crowned by an extraordinary dome that ends with a trimming of fruits from which departs a cap of rays, simulating a scallop as a remembrance to the temple’s holder, the Apostle Santiago, and underneath them a spacious octagonal drawer; six niches are at its foot, where they are situated some processionals images of Easter and a small treasure of the Church, and we can admire the Parochial Manga from 16th century, a custodian holy chalice from same century and a crucifix, a work by Francisco Salzillo. The Cristo Yacente presides over the room, above the chapel altar, work by José Planes Peñalver (1942); the Cristo de la Sentencia, by Javier Santos de la Hera (1979); San Juan, by Román y Salvador (1942); Jesús Resucitado, José Planes (1959); Jesús Prendido, by Ignacio Pinazo (1952); and the Virgen de la Esperanza, by Ramón Cuenca (2002)We can also admire, inside the temple, other images which are exhibited to the worship and that they march on Easter. In the Epistle’s part and in the Lozano’s Chapel, we can admire the Cristo de la Vida, a work by José Planes (1945). In front of it and at the chapel that gives way to the Communion’s Chapel, we can see the Cristo de la Misericordia, a work by Hernández Navarro (1992), and already inside the Chapel, entering to the right we have the imposing crucifixed of Cristo de la Expiración, by Javier Santos de la Hera (1982); followed by the Traslado al Sepulcro by Manuel Romero (1993), in front of them we can see two wonderful works by Ignacio Pinazo, Santa María Magdalena (1942), and beside it, Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1944).

 

Museum-Chapel of The Rollo's Confraternity

t was started on the 22th March 1997, by the Most Reverend Mr. emeritus bishop of the Cartagena’s Diocese, Monsignor Javier Azagra Labiano.
It is placed at the street Portillo de la Glorieta, very closed to the Rollo street, of where the Confraternity was born in 1941. It is the consequence of one of the most brilliant initiatives that the Jumilla’s passionate brotherhoods have had, in particular the one of thisDetail Inside Chapel Rollo Confraternity ‘El Rollo’, given that, this way, it puts in value the Confraternity’s heritage during all year. On it, it is guarded and it is given worship to the Confraternities’ pasos: Ecce-Homo (1942), the Confraternity’s main paso, work by, possibly, the best maker of religious images from Murcia of the 20th century, Juan González Moreno. Descendimiento de la Cruz (1952), work by the distinguised Murcian sculptor José Planes Peñalver; Aparición de Jesús a Santo Tomás (1984), Negación de San Pedro (1993) and Elevación a la Cruz (2008), by the Murcian sculptor José Antonio Hernández Navarro.
The chapel is prepared inside it for the mass celebration, and it is given mass every first Sunday of each month, officiated by the Franciscan Fathers from Santa Ana del Monte.

Timetable

First Sunday of month: from ten to half past eleven in the morning. Visits can be arranged calling to:667 45 55 06.

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Beso de Juda's Confraternity Chapel

It was opened on the 17th April 1999. The chapel consists of a 100m2 nave, and its facade is decorated in white and ochre tones, over them standing out the maroon of the door, the brotherhood official colour, and it is silhouetted the confraternity bronze shield. A bell gable stands out on the door top, whose bell wears engraved the Confraternity’s name and the construction’s date and it announces the entrance and exit of the thrones. On it, they are guarded the thrones and images of: San Pedro (1966), by Juan González Moreno, Beso de Judas (1989), by Mariano Spiteri, and Coronación de Espinas (1998), by Spiteri too. The Chapel only remains opened during Easter Week.

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Jesús Nazareno's Museum

It is placed at the central Arriba Square, tourism neuralgic centre of the town and one of the most emblematic and symbolic, inside the historical and artistic group of Jumilla, it is found the Jesús Nazareno’s Museum, a model regarding to confraternity’s art, together with the Santiago’s Church and the Concejo’s Palace, converted into Archaeological Museum. The building, of a great architectural value, stands out by its facade and a great singularity dome that doesn’t leave distant to the visitor. Its interior, in line with the whole building, is formed by three spacious halls, in two of them is exposed the large artistic heritage that the Jesús Nazareno’s Confraternity has been amassing for decades. By one side, all the sculptoric groups with their respective processional pasos, and in the other hall, all the artistic pieces that form the processional trousseau: crosses, standards, tunics, embroideries, silversmithing, etcOn the third floor placed in the basement, we find the Exhibitions hall Mr. Roque Molera, destinated for the developing of numerous and diverse cultural function of any field: itinerant exhibitions, concerts, projections, seminars, workshops… Currently the Jesús Nazareno’s Museum is part of the regional web of museums ‘Murcia’s Museums’, and forms a cultural and turistic big engine for the city and its visitors.  

Timetable

The museum remains open and can be visited by public in general during the whole year in visits timetable every Sunday from half past ten in the morning to two o’clock in the afternoon.

Image: Placido Guardiola

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