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Doña Pakyta Museum of Art

City museum in Almería

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ61652033 ↗
Source-derived summary

Doña Pakyta Museum of Art (Spanish: Museo de Arte Doña Pakyta), previously known as Casa Montoya or Casa Vasca, is an art museum located in Almería. It was the home of Francisca Díaz Torres, known as Doña Pakyta, who granted it.

It was built in 1928 by Guillermo Langle, ordered by Antonio González Egea. It was opened in May 2015 as a museum.

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The public source identifies “Doña Pakyta Museum of Art” as city museum in Almería. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Doña, Pakyta and Museum.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Doña, Pakyta and Museum providing the first useful test.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q61652033. VIAF identifies the subject as 4147905081379091234. Authority coordinates are 36.835, -2.463. None of the 4 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Doña Pakyta Museum of Art” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.