The building covers an area of 10,000 square metres and consists of three floors and a ground floor. It has 23 permanent exhibition rooms, with mostly pictorial works, which show the evolution of Galician art from the Gothic period to the present day, as well as artistic manifestations from other regions of Spain from the time of
Goya to the mid-20th century. Three of the rooms are dedicated to
Castelao and there is also ample space for the rich collection of Spanish painting by painters such as
Goya,
Fortuny,
Rusiñol and
Vázquez Díaz, and for Galician art with a broad representation of renovators such as Maside, Torres, Souto, Colmeiro and Laxeiro. The building also has temporary exhibition rooms, an auditorium, a cafeteria and workshop spaces. In addition, on its underground floor, a 50-metre section of the remains of the ancient
walls of Pontevedra can be seen, integrated into the building., The most remarkable feature of the building is its brightness. It is built around two rectangular structures connected by glass walkways. The interior combines white concrete in the structure with granite floors and bleached wood floors in the rooms. The smaller southern module is glazed to give it lightness and to facilitate the transition to the museum's
Sarmiento building, to which it is connected by two glass walkways at mid-height. The northern structure, which is more imposing and airtight, has granite exterior walls and longitudinal glass security panels that allow natural light to enter from the upper part of the rooms and function as zenithal windows. == Gallery ==