Madrid Original - Cultural Tourism in Madrid
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Madrid Original ® (selected by Lonely Planet) offers quality private guided tours of Madrid to visitors like you. Our website’s main goal is to provide information about us and our private guided tours to future visitors, but the virtual traveller will also find free valuable information about Madrid’s history, Madrid's heritage, current events in Madrid and other practical info. Why don’t you start with our Brief summary of Madrid History or with Madrid Top 10 Landmarks?

EXHIBITION AT THE THYSSEN: Monet and Abstraction
Monet's Nympheas (detail)Almost blind and uncoupled from the train of Avant-garde, the art of old Monet  was for long despised by historians of modern art… until the 1950’s, when Suddenly, some realized that there was a link between Monet and the Pollock/Rothko generation.

Thyssen Museum / Cajamadrid. From 23/Feb/10 to 30/May/10.
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EXHIBITION at the Fundación MAPFRE: "Impressionism. A new Renaissance"
Caillebotte. Les raboteurs (detail)The Musée d'Orsay is visiting Madrid.  And the M'O chose the Impressionism as flagship of their artistic fleet. Not surprisingly, it's being an enormous success: long queues, crowded rooms, sold-out guided visits,... But, is it worth queing for 90 paintings out the many hundreds that you will see in Paris in about a year?

Fundación MAPFRE. From 15/Jan/10 to 22/Apr/10
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EXHIBITION: The Dutch at the Prado
Van der Hecken: A philosopher (detail)The Dutch school has been traditionally reduced to less than a dozen painting in one room of the Prado Museum. For a few months, the Prado will show close to thirty canvases. Around Rembrandt’s Artemisa, the museum has gathered an interesting selection representative of the different Dutch genres.

Prado Museum. From 3/Dec/09 to 11/Apr/10

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MUSEUMS: National Museum of Romanticism
Dining room at the Romnantic Museum Fall 2009: After 8 years of reforms, Madrid has recovered its Romantic Museum, renamed National Museum of Romanticism. Its new name reveals its new mission: helping the visitor travel to the very heart of XIX century.
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What's new in our website... and beyond
Thyssen Museum : Exhibition "Monet and Abstraction" ----- Fundación MAPFRE (Recoletos 23) : Exhibition "Impressionism. A new Renaissance"  ----- Fundación Juan March : Wyndham Lewis  ----- Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy): Maruja Mallo ----- Caixaforum Madrid : Exhibition Miquel Barceló  ----- Fundación Santander (Ciudad Santander, Boadilla): Exhibition "By the heat of thought. Obras de la Daros Latinamerica Collection" ----- Fundación BBVA: Exhibition "Latinamerican Masters of the FEMSA Collection" ----- Reina Sofía Museum : New display of the Reina Sofía Museum permanent collection ----- Reina Sofía Museum : Exhibition León Ferrari and Mira Schendel ----- Reina Sofía Museum : Exhibition Francesco Lo Savio ----- Prado MuseumExhibition "The Dutch at the Prado" ----- Prado MuseumExhibition "The Art of Power" ----- Prado Museum : Definitive displays for Florentine Renaissance, 18th century and 19th century sections ----- Prado Museum : Las Meninas holds the center of the Main Gallery , so that from the middle of the Prado's Upper Gallery you can again admire simultaneously Velázquez's masterpiece and Goya's "Family of Charles IV" ----- Romantic Museum : Open again -----  Annual Programs of guided visits in Madrid .