Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Spain's national museum of twentieth-century art is the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. The museum, named after Queen Sofia, was officially opened on September 10, 1992. It is located near the Atocha train and metro stations in Madrid, at the southern extremity of the so-called Golden Triangle of Art (located along the Paseo del Prado and also comprising the Museo del Prado and the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza). The museum focuses mostly on Spanish art. The museum's highlights include exceptional collections of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dal, two of Spain's finest 20th-century masterpieces.

Picasso's 1937 artwork Guernica is the museum's most recognized masterpiece. Along with its rich collection, the museum's various galleries host a mix of national and international temporary exhibits, making it one of the world's major museums for modern and contemporary art. Due to COVID-19 pandemic limitations, it received 1,643,108 visitors in 2021, up 32% from 2020 but well below 2019 attendance. It was rated seventh on the list of the world's most visited art museums in 2021. It also has a free-access art library with a collection of over 100,000 books, 3,500 sound recordings, and almost 1,000 movies.

Among the Spanish painters featured in this museum's collection are Joan Miró, Salvador Dal, Antoni Tàpies, and Equipo Crónica. Paintings, sculptures, prints, photos, and installations by some of Spain's most prominent artists of the twentieth century, such as Joan Miró, are among the works on display. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (9 p.m. on Thursdays), except on Mondays. Adult admission is €10, students and pensioners are €6, and children under the age of 16 are free.

Location: C. de Sta. Isabel, 52, 28012 Madrid, Spain

Website: https://www.museoreinasofia.es