The Museum of fine arts is one of the most important and famous museums in Valencia. The Museum is the repository of many of the true masterpieces of paintings, prints, sculptures and drawings by the greatest masters who worked at different times.

The Museum of fine arts is located in the Seminary building of the former monastery Colegio San PIO V, which is a monument of architecture, which dates back to 17-18 centuries. The author of the project of the Seminary was the architect Juan pérez Castell, which started its construction in 1638. Finally the monastery was built in the 18th century.

The most extensively represented in the Museum collection of Gothic painting, numbering about two thousand exhibits. In large quantities here are paintings of Valencian painters of the 14th and 15th centuries. The Museum can rightly be proud of such a collection of great works, among which are a portrait by velázquez, the canvas of El Greco's St. John the Baptist," picture "dead man's bluff", owned painted by Francisco Jose de Goya. There are also paintings of joaquín Sorolla and many other prominent artists of the time.

The Museum contains a unique collection of prints and drawings, in which a special place is occupied engravings of authorship Giovanni Battista Piranesi - there are about eight hundred. Unfortunately, this collection can be seen not always – it is involved only in temporary exhibitions due to the complexity of storing these artifacts for which it is necessary to observe strictly certain temperature in the room and provide some lighting.

In addition, the Museum presents a collection of contemporary art, sculptures, and ancient altars 14-15 centuries.