Museum Reina Sofía

|- |colspan=2 align=" center" bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | local Name ||Museo Nacional Central of Arte Reina Sofía |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Country ||Espagne
|- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | City || Madrid |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Building ||Hospital de San Carlos
(18th century) |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Supervision ||Spanish ministry of the culture |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Collections || Contemporary art (Paintings, sculptures,…) |- |bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Created in || 1992 |- |bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Visitors/year ||1.444.300 (2003) |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Address ||Santa Isabel, 52
28012 Madrid |- | bgcolor=" #FFDEAD" | Internet || Official site |} The Museo Nacional Centro of Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS, or more simply the Reina Sofía ) is the Spanish national museum of Modern art and contemporary, which covers the period being spread out year 1900 at our days. It was inaugurated with Madrid in 1992, and baptized in the honor of Sophie of Greece, the current queen of Spain, marries Juan-Carlos I {{er}}.

History

The central building of the museum was old the Hôpital of San Carlos , built under the direction of Jose de Hermosilla and then of Francesco Sabatini, at the end of the 18th century. As from 1980, one made restorations to open the museum since 1988 in the form of temporary exhibitions. This year there, a decree declared it national museum. The French architect Jean Nouvel carried out an extension inaugurated in 2005, which increased the surface of the museum of approximately 27.000 square meters.

It is an autonomous organization depend on the Ministry for the Culture. It is in the zone of Atocha (close to the station of the same name). It is one of the tops of Gold the Triangle of Art (other tops of the triangle being occupied by the Musée of Prado and the Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza)

Works

Among Spanish works, the museum lodges excellent collections of Pablo Picasso (whose Guernica celebrates it), El Salvador Dalí (like Large Masturbateur ), Juan Gris, Joan Miró, Julio González, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Palazuelo, Antoni Tàpies, Miquel Barceló, Pablo Gargallo, Lucio Muñoz, Luis Gordillo, Jorge Oteiza, Ouka Lele and Jose Luis Gutiérrez Solana.

International artists

It shelters also works of the large international artists like:

Internal bonds

Museum of Prado
Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza

External bonds

Official site of the museum

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