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Unusual museums

Guided visits to Madrid's smallest, precious and relaxing museums: Royal Academy, Lázaro Galdiano, Sorolla, ...

Lazaro Galdiano Museum: a luxury collection

The Lázaro Galdiano Museum is a little gem held in a Neo-Renaissance palace in aristocratic quarter "Barrio de Salamanca".

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Royal Academy, school of artists

The Museum of the Fine Arts Royal Academy of Saint Ferdinand exhibits the collection of the academic institution where, for instance, Goya taught and Picasso took lessons. As this institution existed even before the Prado, works of Art expropriated (for instance, to the Jesuits during the 18th century or to the ex-Prime Minister Godoy in 1816) had the Royal Academy as natural destination.

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Sorolla Museum: the painter in his studio

Sorolla is the main representative of what could be considered Spanish Impressionist, although the concept doesn't fit absolutely to the Mediterranean light sea-side views which made him famous all over the world. He was specially appreciated in the United States, where the founder of New York Hispanic Society, Archer Milton Huntington, was his close friend and protector.

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Museum of Romanticism: flashback to 19th c.

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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Museo del Traje: el vestido de la historia

Si nuestra indumentaria habla de nosotros, la historia del traje es nuestra historia.

Lazaro Galdiano Museum: a luxury collection

Royal Academy, school of artists

Sorolla Museum: the painter in his studio

Museum of Romanticism: flashback to 19th c.

Museo del Traje: el vestido de la historia

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