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The
"National
Museum
of
Sculpture"
is
a
museum
in
Valladolid,
Spain,
belonging
to
the
Spanish
Ministry
of
Culture.
The
museum
has
an
extensive
sculptural
collection
ranging
from
the
Middle
Ages
to
the
19th
century.
The
collections
come
mostly
from
churches
and
monasteries
in
the
Region
of
Castile,
whose
pieces
of
religious
art
were
confiscated
by
the
State
in
1836,
by
order
of
Minister
of
Finance
Mendizábal.
Other
parts
of
the
collections
come
from
particular
donations,
deposits
or
acquisitions
by
the
State.
The
museum
was
founded
as
the
Provincial
Museum
of
Fine
Arts
on
4
October
1842.
It
had
its
first
headquarters
at
the
Palacio
de
Santa
Cruz.
On
29
April
1933
it
was
moved
to
the
Colegio
de
San
Gregorio.
Other
current
seats
are
in
the
16th-century
Palacio
de
Villena
and
Palacio
del
Conde
de
Gondomar
The
museum
houses
works
from
the
13th
to
19th
centuries,
executed
mostly
in
the
Central
Spain,
and
also
in
other
regions
historically
connected
to
Spain
(Italy,
Flanders,
Southern
America).
Artworks
include,
among
the
others,
a
Raising
of
the
Cross
by
Francisco
del
Rincon,
I
Thirst,
and
The
Way
of
Calvary
Gregorio
Fernández,
Adoration
of
the
Magi
by
Alonso
Berruguete,
Lamentation
of
Christ
by
Juan
de
Juni,
Penitent
Magdalene
by
Pedro
de
Mena
or
the
Holy
Sepulchre
or
passage
of
the
Sleepers
Alonso
de
Rozas.
During
the
Holy
Week
in
Valladolid
the
museum
gives
104
images
(distributed
in
the
corresponding
pasos)
to
the
processions
for
the
brotherhoods.
