Lleida Museum, the shortened and current usual name of the
Diocesan and Comarcal Lleida Museum (
Catalan:
Museu de Lleida,
Museu Diocesà i Comarcal de Lleida), is an art and history museum in
Lleida (
Catalonia,
Spain) owned by the
Generalitat de Catalunya, the
Lleida city council,
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lleida and the
comarcal council of
Segrià, of which Lleida is the capital. It assembles a variety of collections, including
Roman,
Islamic,
Romanesque,
Gothic,
Renaissance and
Baroque art. It was created in 1997, while the current building in
Rambla d'Aragó was inaugurated in 2007. The museum was controversial from its onset: some of the pieces on display were found in the Catalan-speaking part of
Aragon known as
Franja de Ponent, adjacent to Lleida and previously belonging to its local diocese, which however were segregated by
Vatican decree in 1995, and now belong to the neighbouring
Roman Catholic Diocese of Barbastro-Monzón, a merger of former dioceses. They have been claimed by Aragonese institutions ever since.