Highlights- Málaga Day 5 (last)

I went to the Museo de Málaga. It has art (mostly by local artists, all styles, painting and sculpture). There are room monitors to restrict touching things and other bad museum behavior. I don’t see how they could have prevented a person acting badly because the rooms were so large and they were so few, but I doubt the visit would go well if someone did. As I learned on the first floor, the monitors also keep you from circulating around the museum in the wrong direction (we can’t have that). Someone decided that the museum needed extensive descriptions of how it was founded, the leaders who founded it, and how it came to be in the Customs House. I have to confess that those questions never occur to me when I visit a museum. The second floor has an extensive collection of broken Roman statues, including a really big foot. No indication if it was for an ancient podiatry training school. If it were part of some huge statue, there would have been enough stone to build a city block. Lots of broken pottery had been reassembled from Phoenician, Roman, and other times. I passed by the excavated Roman theater, but didn’t pay to go in. I could see all I wanted of what was left after scavenging the site for building material. It was far less complete than the theater at Sagunto, which probably kept the purists happy.