Madrid's museums you can not miss

Prado Museum: the building that now houses the Museo Nacional del Prado was designed by the architect Juan de Villanueva in 1785 as a Cabinet of Natural Science by Charles III. However, the fate of this building would not be clear until his grandson, Ferdinand VII, took the decision to convert this building to the creation of a Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture. The Royal Museum, which would soon be renamed the National Museum of Painting and Sculpture, and then the Prado Museum, first opened to the public in November 1819. He was born with a double goal: to show the works owned by the crown and Europe to discover the existence of a Spanish school as worthy of merit as any other national school. This is a collection consisting of approximately 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 4,800 prints and 8,200 drawings, and a wide range of decorative art objects and historical documents. Today, the museum exhibits in his own home just under 1,000 works, while around 3,100 works ('Prado dispersed') are, as temporary storage in various museums and institutions, and the rest is kept in warehouses.

Due to the size of the collections and the difficulty of deciding what to see, the Prado Museum offers its visitors three runs to get their works maestras.El Prado Museum is huge and the number of works to be seen is unattainable unless you visit the museum for several hours a day. Therefore, the museum has organized 3 types of time-dependent route with which account for the visit, which we have selected 15, 30 and 50 pieces that run the names of the most important painters, as well exceptional works of jewelry and sculpture from the collections of the Museum. Some of the works not fail to see are The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, The Washing of Tintoretto, The Descent from Roger van der Weyden, The Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch's The Three Graces by Rubens, in addition to some of the works of the greatest Spanish artists such as Velázquez's Las Meninas, The Dream of Jacob de Ribera or Goya's.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza art: despite the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation was created in 1988, the opening of the Museum came in October 1992, the date from which the Museum has grown significantly with the expansion of collections and facilities by especially to the long-term loan from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza in 2004 and the expansion of the Palace of Villahermosa. In this context, the museum offers a tour of public art from the thirteenth to the late twentieth century. You can find a thousand works on display through which visitors can see the major periods and schools of painting in Western art as the Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, Romanticism and the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to reach the Pop Art movement are also included some representation lacking in public collections such as Impressionism, Fauvism, German Expressionism and the experimental avant-garde of the early twentieth century. One of the most important collections of this splendid example is that of nineteenth-century American painting, the only museum in the area of ​​Europe. As a curiosity, through the exhibits may know the tastes and preferences of Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947) and Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002), especially attracted by the portrait and landscape.

Reina Sofia Museum, the opening of the National Museum Reina Sofia Art Center in 1990 involved the creation of a museum of modern and contemporary art internationally in Spain, although there have been few ups and downs experienced by the building to achieve that end. The Reina Sofia Museum program hinges on two considerations. The first, rethink the role and constitution of the contemporary museum. Second, ask if there is an alternative to the historical patterns of this institution, the modern museum emerged in the '20s to represent a linear story and exclusive, or postmodern, raised in the mid-'80s as absorption of confrontation and dissent in a new global territory. The museum is conceived as an institution that exhibits a universal knowledge, identity and exclusion, but as a place capable of generating new interstitial spaces of sociality and discussion in the public sphere. It can admire works by artists like Oskar Schlemmer, José Val del Omar, Lygia Clark and Alice Creischler.Exposición current time (April 6-August 22, 2011): A hard light, without compassion. The movement of labor photography, 1926-1939.