Unamuno House Museum in Salamanca

Miguel de Unamuno · 1864-1936 · Salamanca

Visit the rector's house at the University of Salamanca, where Miguel de Unamuno lived with his family and wrote works such as Mist.

Schedule

Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 14:00 · closed Sundays and public holidays

Admission

€4 · 50% concession · free on Mondays

Address

Calle Libreros, 25, 37008 Salamanca

Visits

Always guided · 1 hour

The house

The rector's house

Have you read Mist? Miguel de Unamuno published it while he was living in this house, right up against the facade of the University of Salamanca. It was his home from 1900, when he was elected rector, until his dismissal in 1914, and his last four children were born here.

The building went up in the 18th century with a dual purpose, as a hall for the university senate and as the rector's residence, and it adjoins the facade of the Escuelas Mayores. During his years here, Unamuno published most of his best-known works, such as The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho and The Tragic Sense of Life.

The University opened it as a house museum in 1953, for the institution's seventh centenary, and today you can walk through the family home with its furniture and personal belongings.

The entrance of the Unamuno House Museum, on Calle Libreros. Photo: Emilio J. Rodríguez Posada (CC BY-SA 2.0).

What you'll see on the visit

The Rector's Hall

This spacious hall is on the ground floor, and Unamuno sometimes set himself up here to work. Among its pieces are a 17th-century tapestry, a Renaissance chest with eight locks and two portraits of the writer: the one painted by his friend Manuel Losada, at the entrance, and the one by José Aguiar, from 1935.

The family home

On the first floor is the home where he lived with his family, with its furniture and personal belongings. Look out for the copy of Velázquez's Christ painted by Gregorio Prieto in 1915 and the curious book stand that Unamuno himself designed for reading comfortably in bed.

Paintings and origami

Around the house you'll also see works by painters of his time, such as Vázquez Díaz, Darío de Regoyos and Echevarría, paintings Unamuno himself did as a young man, and his origami figures, one of his more curious hobbies.