Salamanca's Museum of Art Nouveau and Art Deco

We nearly blew this off. What could they possibly have way out here in the sticks? Were we wrong! The collection is impressive, the building rivals anything else of the art nouveau genre. We wanted to stay late to see it all lit up from within, but the bus service was limited because of the holiday.

This is the back door!

It's all in the old Casa de Lis; except for the cafe, there is a no fotos policy; this
is inside the cafe; we were in the building quite a while, viewing the collection,
before we realized that every exterior window, even some interior, and every
skylight, was stained-glass; what a visual treat!

Cafe

Lamp in cafe

Cafe door

Tile painting in a stairwell

Arcade overlooking the city and countryside

Central two-story glassed-in atrium...

In the doll collection, two items I couldn't resist: a doll with
removable heads

And some Janus-faced (happy/sad) swivel head dolls

The gift shop was pretty good too

Front of Casa de Lis, from the street below; imagine it at night, all lit up from
within... [see later posts from Salamanca, https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2017/05/
salamancas-museum-of-art-nouveau-and.html]