The Casa del Sol

In 2011, the collection of the Museo Nacional de Reproducciones Artísticas, founded in 1877, was integrated into the National Sculpture Museum. It is a collection of more than 3,000 pieces which, for its quality, abundance and antiques, is considered one of the best in Europe. The permanent exhibition in the Casa del Sol brings together a selection of famous works from the Greco-Roman age, from the Belvedere Torso to the Laocoonte or the Discus Thrower, alongside collections of pins, gladiator helmets, busts of great philosophers, Fayyum portraits or the mask of Agamemnon. Copies kept in the Casa del Sol are valuable for several reasons: because they are centuries old and were made in the best shops in Europe; because they reproduce old works which in some cases been lost; because they teach us about a millenary technique, that of vaciado, which is very complex; they help us to better understand the history of European taste. Illustrating works made with different materials – plaster, bronze, earth, as well as photographs and lithographs – the permanent exhibition offers a panorama of reproduction techniques ranging from antiquity to the contemporary period, when the great inventions in the field of reproducibility technique made ??it possible to bring art to the general public.