Welcome to the Candás Sculpture Centre, Antón Museum. Municipally owned, the centre is integrated into the Principality of Asturias network of museums through a permanent collaboration agreement with the Ministry of Culture. Its objectives are the conservation of its collections and the study, documentation, diffusion, promotion, research and pedagogy of sculpture in all its manifestations and of art in general.
The Antón Museum opened its doors to the public on 13 July, 1989, after a process that began in the 1970s, when the heirs of the sculptor from Candás Antonio Rodríguez García, “Antón”, began consultations with the Carreño City Council to receive the artist’s work as a donation, which they had kept for more than two decades.
The Centre facilities are the former manor house of the Estrada-Nora family, a late 18th century building acquired by the Carreño City Council in 1983 for cultural uses. They decided to use it exclusively as a museum in 1987.
The building is square and has two floors and a ground floor. The ground floor lobby hosts the information desk. On this ground floor there are three rooms for temporary exhibitions, the general store and services. A wooden staircase starts from the entrance hall and leads into a corridor, moving up to the first floor. Most of the surface area of the first floor is an open and bright room, used for the permanent exhibition of Antón’s work.
On the second floor there is the library, the archive and the office.
