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National museum of Kingdom of spain

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía logo.svg
Edificio Sabatini. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.jpg
Established September 10, 1992; 29 years ago  (1992-09-10)
Location Madrid, Kingdom of spain
Visitors four,425,699 (2019)[ane]
Director Manuel Borja-Villel[two]
Website world wide web.museoreinasofia.es

Spanish Property of Cultural Interest

Official name Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Type Not-movable
Criteria Monument
Designated 1978
Reference no. RI-51-0004260

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ("Queen Sofia National Museum Fine art Centre"; MNCARS)[n. 1] is Espana's national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1990, and is named for Queen Sofía. It is located in Madrid, nearly the Atocha train and metro stations, at the southern end of the so-called Aureate Triangle of Art (located along the Paseo del Prado and also comprising the Museo del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza).

The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish fine art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain'southward two greatest 20th-century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. The most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica. Forth with its extensive drove, the museum offers a mixture of national and international temporary exhibitions in its many galleries, making it one of the world's largest museums for mod and contemporary art. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic it attracted but 1,248,480 visitors, a drop of 72 percent from 2019, but it still ranked sixth on the list of about-visited fine art museums in the world.[3]

It too hosts a free-admission library specializing in fine art, with a collection of over 100,000 books, over three,500 sound recordings, and almost ane,000 videos.

Collection [edit]

The museum is mainly defended to Castilian art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain'south ii greatest 20th-century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. Certainly, the almost famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso'southward painting Guernica. The Reina Sofía collection has works past artists such as Joan Miró, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Gargallo, Julio González, Luis Gordillo, Juan Gris, José Gutiérrez Solana, Lucio Muñoz, Jorge Oteiza, Julio Romero de Torres, Pablo Serrano, and Antoni Tàpies.

International fine art represented in the collection include works by Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Robert Delaunay, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Sarah Grilo, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, René Magritte, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Nam June Paik, Human being Ray, Diego Rivera, Marking Rothko, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Clyfford Nevertheless, Yves Tanguy, and Wolf Vostell.

Gallery [edit]

History of the building [edit]

Courtyard in old hospital building

Jean Nouvel building interior

Infirmary [edit]

The building is on the site of the first Full general Hospital of Madrid. King Philip II centralised all the hospitals that were scattered throughout the courtroom. In the eighteenth century, King Ferdinand VI decided to build a new hospital considering the facilities at the fourth dimension were insufficient for the city. The building was designed by builder José de Hermosilla and his successor Francisco Sabatini who did the bulk of the work. In 1805, after numerous work stoppages, the building was to assume its part that it had been built for, which was existence a hospital, although but ane-third of the proposed project by Sabatini was completed. Since then it has undergone various modifications and additions until, in 1969, it was closed down equally a hospital.

Fine art museum [edit]

Extensive modern renovations and additions to the erstwhile edifice were fabricated starting in 1980. The fundamental building of the museum was in one case an 18th-century hospital. The edifice functioned as the Centro del Arte (Fine art Centre) from 1986 until established as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 1988. In 1988, portions of the new museum were opened to the public, mostly in temporary configurations; that same yr it was decreed by the Ministry of Culture as a national museum. Its architectural identity was radically changed in 1989 by Ian Ritchie with the add-on of three glass apportionment towers.

Expansion [edit]

An 8000 m2 (86,000 ft2) expansion costing €92 meg designed by French architect Jean Nouvel opened in Oct 2005. The extension includes spaces for temporary exhibitions, an auditorium of 500 seats, and a 200-seat auditorium, a bookshop, restaurants and administration offices.[four] ducks scéno was consultant for scenographic equipment of auditoriums and Arau Acustica for audio-visual studies.[v]

Other facilities [edit]

Reina Sofía has other two places where several exhibitions usually take place. At that place are the Crystal Palace and the Velázquez Palace, both in Retiro Park.

Notable works [edit]

  • Guernica by Pablo Picasso
  • The Corking Masturbator by Salvador Dalí
  • Equal-Parallel/Guernica-Bengasi by Richard Serra
  • 6 TV Dé-Coll/age by Wolf Vostell[6] [7]

Popular civilisation references [edit]

The museum features, every bit a major protagonist, in Jim Jarmusch'south The Limits of Control (2009).

In the 2003 Castilian film Noviembre, the school archway scenes and some operation scenes were shot in the square in front of the museum.

Meet also [edit]

  • List of most visited art museums
  • Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares

References [edit]

Informational notes
  1. ^ Also known in Spanish as the Museo Reina Sofía, El Reina Sofía, or simply el Reina
Citations
  1. ^ The Art Newspaper annual survey of art museum omnipresence, published April 9, 2020
  2. ^ New Director named Archived 2011-06-23 at the Wayback Car
  3. ^ The Art Newspaper almanac visitor survey, published March 30, 2020
  4. ^ "The Ateliers Jean Nouvel". Ateliers Jean Nouvel . Retrieved xiv December 2017.
  5. ^ "Dans les cartons: Auditoriums Museo Reina Sofia". ix March 2016. Archived from the original on 24 September 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Wolf Vostell | half-dozen TV Dé-Coll/age (1963) | Cocked". www.artsy.internet . Retrieved 2020-06-21 .
  7. ^ "Wolf Vostell – six TV Dé-Coll/age". www.museoreinasofia.es . Retrieved 2020-06-21 .

External links [edit]

  • Official website

Coordinates: 40°24′30.85715″N 3°41′38.38596″W  /  40.4085714306°North 3.6939961000°Due west  / 40.4085714306; -three.6939961000

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