Museo Juan Cabré, Calaceite, Spain

Museo Juan Cabré is a Museum of Archeology in Calaceite, in the southeast of Aragon (Spain).

The Juan Cabré Museum, located inside the historic center of Calaceite, where the archeologist and painter Juan Cabré was born.

The Juan Cabré Museum. Located in an old restored house, it houses the archaeological, pictorial and private collection of the calaceite archaeologist Juan Cabré and it realizes temporary expositions of painting of artists related of one way or another with Calaceite.

Juan Cabré Aguiló (Calaceite, 2 of August of 1882 – Madrid, 2 of August of 1947) was a Spanish archeologist. The municipality of Calaceite has dedicated a museum to him.

He made his first studies in Tortosa and Zaragoza. Later it continued its formation in Madrid thanks to a scholarship of the Delegation of Teruel. At the same time he was a student of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and did some work for the Prado Museum. This solid plastic formation is evident in the excellent drawings that accompany all his cataloging work, especially in the case of Castro de la Mesa de Miranda.

His inclination for drawing and, later, for archeology, seems to be influenced by the collector Sebastián Monserrat de Zaragoza, who brought him to his collection made up of pieces of Iberian culture. At a date as early as 1907 Cabré published his first archaeological work in the Bulletin of the Royal Academy of Good Letters of Barcelona on the excavations Iberian settlement of San Antonio de Calaceite. He was at that time named Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of History and designated for the elaboration of the Monumental Catalog of Spain, in particular, that of the province of Teruel.

His training was extended thanks to one of the scholarships that the Board for Extension of Studies granted him to visit France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.

Cabré began his research on Iberian culture in the south of the peninsula after 1917, but soon he was oriented to the Celtic peoples of central Spain with the excavations of Cogotas, Castro de los Castillejos (Sanchorreja) and Castro Of the Table of Miranda, all of them in the province of Avila.

It is famous his study of important samples of rock art, dating between the Auriñaciense and the Magdaleniense, inside the cave of the Casares (Riba de Saelices) and the discovery of the cave of the Hoz (Santa María del Espino) also with Paintings and prehistoric engravings, both in the province of Guadalajara in the year 1934.

It is famous his study of important samples of rock art, dating between Auriñaciense and Magdaleniense, inside the cave of the Casares (Riba de Saelices) and the discovery of the cave of the Hoz (Santa María del Espino) also with Paintings and prehistoric engravings, both in the province of Guadalajara in the year 1934.

After the civil war, Cabré was dismissed as the head of the Cerralbo Museum, although in 1940 he was appointed head of the Prehistory section of the “Diego de Velázquez” Institute of Art and Archeology. In July 1942, he obtained, by opposition, the place of preparer of the section of Prehistory and Old Age of the National Archaeological Museum, position that held until the moment of its death, 2 of August of 1947.

After the civil war, Cabré was dismissed as the head of the Cerralbo Museum, although in 1940 he was appointed head of the Prehistory section of the “Diego de Velázquez” Institute of Art and Archeology. In July 1942, he obtained, by opposition, the position of preparer of the section of Prehistory and Ancient Age of the National Archaeological Museum, position that held until the moment of its death, 2 of August of 1947.