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MUSEUMS: The permanent collection of the Reina Sofía Museum |
 With the reorganisation of its permanent collection, director Manuel Borja-Villel succesfully leads the Reina Sofia Museum to be no longer a museum of 20th century Spanish Art, but one providing a Spanish perspective on 20th century art. A guided visit to the new Reina Sofía Museum will unveil all the novelties and shed new light to familiar masterpieces.  The Queen Sofía Museum (Museo Reina Sofía) is home to Picasso, Miró and Dalí and many other artists of the 20th century. But among all, it is known as the place where modern art icon "Guernica" is exhibited.
The "Guernica" is still the axis structuring the whole collection. But rather than entrusting the Picasso collection with the task of leading to this universal icon, it's the Spanish Pavillion of the 1937 International Exhibition that ensures the right interpretation of "Guernica".
Miró and Dalí offer a powerful counterweight to Picasso, while the other spanish and foreign artists works form a background against which we can perceive Picasso as an outstanding artist integrated in a more general artistic context.
The historical background of 20th century, a contrast of apocalyptic wars and technological progress, is symbolically the context for this collection housed in an 18th century building that has been, until quite recently, one of Madrid main hospitals: the Hospital General.
Address:
Santa Isabel, 52
28012 Madrid
Opening times:
We-Sa, Mo, 10am. to 9pm.
Su, 10am. to 2:30pm.
Tuesday closed
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