Sharpe, Chloe Marie MoniqueRossi Vairo, GiuliaRamôa Melo, JoanaVilhena de Carvalho, Maria João2024-12-182024-12-182019Sharpe, Chloe (2019). “Cemeteries as Museums, Museums as Cemeteries: Exhibiting Funerary Sculpture in Spain, ca. 1880 to the present.” En Almas de Pedra. Escultura Funerária: da Criação à Musealização, ed. Giulia Rossi Vairo et al. Lisboa: Instituto de Estudos Medievais, pp. 281-291. ISBN: 978-989-54529-1-0.978-989-54529-1-0https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112859The nineteenth-century idea that cemeteries are 'museums of sculpture’ has, today, become a cliché, and is often used as away of packaging a visitor experience which is otherwise difficult to classify or sell. This paper critically examines some of the interrelations and differences between these two institutions - cemetery and museum - as spaces for the exhibition of figurative sculpture in Spain, focusing on the powerful fact that cemeteries are repositories not only of sculpted bodies, but of dead ones. I discuss how funerary sculpture was adapted and re-worked for exhibition in conventional art spaces, and consider the corresponding shifts in meaning. I also examine examples of highly 'mobile' works of funerary sculpture, which have been repeatedly de-contextualised and re-contextualised as they have moved between cemeteries, museums and art exhibitions, gaining or losing real bodies in the process.engbook parthttps://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/149162open access069.01MuseumCemeterySpainMonumentMuseología5101.06 Museología