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Museum · Parte Vieja (Old Town), San Sebastián, Basque Country

San Telmo Museum

San Telmo Museoa · Museo San Telmo

San Telmo Museoa is the museum of Basque society and citizenship in San Sebastián's Old Town, housed in a former Dominican convent from the 16th century.

Why go

San Telmo Museoa (the San Telmo Museum) is San Sebastián's museum of Basque society and citizenship, on Plaza Zuloaga in the Old Town. The museum says it was inaugurated in 1902 and holds more than 55,500 pieces in its ethnography, fine arts, photography, archaeology and history collections. The Basque Government's tourism site says its old building was a Dominican monastery built in the 16th century, that the museum reopened in 2011 after a five-year restoration and extension, and that a new pavilion below Mount Urgull houses temporary exhibitions among other things. Opening days and hours are set by the museum, so check its site before you go.

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City

San Sebastián

San Sebastián (Donostia) is a coastal city in the Basque Country and capital of the province of Gipuzkoa, laid out along La Concha Bay between Mount Urgull and Mount Igeldo. XTOUR maps La Concha Beach, the San Telmo Museum and the Basilica of Santa María del Coro in the city, and Monte Igueldo, the hill at one end of the bay.

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