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THE MUSEUM

The museum is located just opposite the sea of Samil beach, one of the main leisure areas of the city of Vigo. You can enjoy its walk along the beach, its green spaces, sport facilities, children's attractions, hotel industry establishments and car parks.

Foto del exterior del Museo, se abre en una nueva ventana O Susurro, se abre en una nueva ventana

The whole built surface is higher than 5.000 m2, located in a plot higher than 13.000 m2.


VERBUM building was designed by the Galician architect César Portela. It can be structured in four floors: semibasement, ground floor, first floor and terrace. They are all unified by a light box which relates them. The vertical communications (stairs and lifts) are also placed in this light box.

The project, in short, is a set of boxes. Boxes that, as the Chinese ones, are interconnected and contained ones into others. As result, they generate spaces and situations interrelated.

The set seems as it was hold in the hollow, while each box is designed appropriately: it may be torn, it may be cracked, it may be manipulated to enable light entrance, to create clear and dark areas, spaces which change of colour as day goes by, and where visitors discover the rich, the complex, the inusual that the world of the word may be. This changing space game, surprising, exciting is, as life game, full of bright and shadowy sequences and episodes.

It is a life to be lived, full of sensations, of thoughts and feelings… and after all these feelings are expressed into words.
The space and shape expressivity goes parallel to sculpture and painting expressivity. In the garden, at the main entrance, is the bronze sculpture O susurro by Sergio Portela.

At the Auditorium entrance we can admire the Manuel Coia sculputure A censura: a character cuts another’s one tongue as a sign of the censorship of expression freedom. Finally, a fresco by José Mª Báez, As palabras, dominates the central space.

 
     
  VERBUM | Avda de Samil Nº 17 | 36212 Vigo (Spain)| verbum@vigo.org | Telephone +34 986 240 130 | Fax +34 986 240 633