Zenobia and Juan Ramón Jiménez House Museum in Moguer

When he was awarded the Nobel Prize, Juan Ramón Jiménez sent half the prize money to his museum in Moguer. It's this house on the old Calle Nueva, where he spent his childhood and youth, and which appears in Platero and I. He himself asked for the museum to bear his wife's name first: Zenobia Camprubí.

Zenobia was a writer and translator. From 1913 she and Juan Ramón translated the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore together: she translated from English and he made sure that neither the rhythm nor the beauty was lost. Thanks to those translations, Spain and Spanish America discovered Tagore's work, and working together led them first to friendship and then to love. Today their diaries and letters reveal many details of the couple's life.

Juan Ramón was born in 1881 on Calle Ribera, and a few years later his family moved to this house. The museum's story began in 1948, when a group of Moguer residents set up a public library in his name to honour him in exile. Later, Huelva Provincial Council bought the house, and the couple helped by sending the museum almost all the belongings from their Madrid flat, which they had had to abandon when they went into exile in 1936. Until then, those belongings had been stored at the Museo Romántico. The house museum opened its doors in 1958.