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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Santa Isabel 52,
Madrid
Communidad de Madrid
91 467 50 62
Type: Museum
Addmission Fee: General admission 3 Euro, students 1.50 Euro. Free admissionon Sat. after 2:30pm, on Sun. and for visitors over 65 or under 18.
Hours: Open Mon.-Sat. 10 am-9pm, Sun. and public holidays, 9 am-2pm. Closed Tues
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Madrid
Communidad de Madrid
91 467 50 62
Type: Museum
Addmission Fee: General admission 3 Euro, students 1.50 Euro. Free admissionon Sat. after 2:30pm, on Sun. and for visitors over 65 or under 18.
Hours: Open Mon.-Sat. 10 am-9pm, Sun. and public holidays, 9 am-2pm. Closed Tues
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What began as a venue for temporary exhibitions in 1986 at the 18th-century General Hospital was permanently inaugurated by the King and Queen(whose name it bears) in 1992. The museum houses contemporary works on the inside and dual glass elevator shafts on the outside, added during the building’s overhaul.
Visitors have a great view of the plaza as they rise and descend between the floors, the second and fourth of which house the permanent exhibitions. The rest of the 36,701 square meters (408,000 square feet) of space (the curator takes pleasure in noting that the Reina Sofia is “uno de lo mas grande galerías del arte en el mundo” – one of the largest art galleries in the world) is given over to temporary exhibitions and mixed-media displays. The museum has a decidedly fresh, youthful vibe, perhaps owing to its large representation of 20th-century avant-garde artists, whose works even a Gen-Xer might recognize.
Relocated from the Prado’s Casón del Buen Retiro, Picasso’s masterwork Guernica is the highlight of the museum; it savagely depicts the bombing of the Basque town orchestrated by Franco and carried out by Hitler’s troops during the Spanish Civil War. In 1981 this painting was brought to Spain from New York at Picasso’s request that it be returned only after democracy had been restored in the country. Other rooms are devoted to the spatially abstract works of Joan Miró, the cubism of Juan Gris and the preeminent figure of surrealism, Salvador Dalí.
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